Aside from Riva and Wallis, the best actress category is completed by Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook, Naomi Watts in The Impossible and Jessica Chastain, who plays a CIA agent hunting Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty.

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What they have in common is a North East footballer, turned agent, who in their eyes went from hero to zero.

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The talented, likable athlete is supposed to have a sublime season in the final year of his contract, become a free agent and cruelly abandon whatever sad-sack village he's living in with crummy pizza, zero Trumps and no Momofukus or even Milk Bars and run straight to New York.

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