Edward Norton has urged Academy Award organisers to ban the lavish gift baskets handed out to the stars attending the annual ceremony.

The Fight Club actor believes that it is fundamentally unfair that rich people receive free gifts whilst the impoverished are given nothing.

IMBD quotes Norton as saying: "A lot of us have talked to the Academy Awards producers about this and I think they're actually going to scuttle the gift baskets and that kind of stuff. I mean the gift baskets, worth amounts of money that a low income family could live on for a year, (are given to) people who have so much already. It gets depressing. You sit there, going, 'This is an embarrassment.'"