Due respect to Scott Feinberg (who joined Sasha Stone and I earlier today for Oscar Poker #8), but I don’t believe Rooney Mara, strong as she is in The Social Network, would register as a Best Supporting Actress contender even if she was in fact campaigning. That’s because her character, Erica Albright, delivers only one emotion in the film — i..e, disdain and repulsion for Jesse Eisenberg‘s Mark Zuckerberg. And because she doesn’t participate in the greater Facebook conflict scheme, and is therefore of limited interest.
