Oscar Nominee Spotlight: 'Room' Star Brie Larson's Busy Awards Season

Larson kicked off her awards-circuit press tour on August 13, 2015 in Beverly Hills. The actress told Yahoo Movies that her Room performance was informed by her own difficult childhood. (Photo: FilmMagic)

Larson and Carol star Rooney Mara attended the Telluride Film Festival on September 4, 2015 in Telluride, Colorado, where Room had its world premiere. (Photo: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

Larson and Tom Hiddleston, co-stars in the upcoming Kong: Skull Island, dressed up for Entertainment Weekly’s awards-season bash at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2015. (Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images)

Larson and her 9-year-old co-star Jacob Tremblay took questions from the press on September 14, 2015 in Toronto. While shooting the film, the two actors bonded over their love of Star Wars. (Photo: Mike Windle/Getty Images)

Brie Larson and her co-stars Tremblay and Joan Allen attended the Room premiere on September 15, 2015 at TIFF, where the film received the People’s Choice Award. (Photo: Dominik Magdziak Photography/WireImage)

While promoting Room’s theatrical premiere, Larson paid a visit to the late-night talk show on October 8, 2015. (Photo by: Douglas Gorenstein/Getty Images)

Larson discussed Room in New York City on October 21, 2015, as part of AOL’s live interview series. She talked about how having Tremblay on set actually helped lighten the mood. “He doesn’t tune into a dramatic frequency at all,” she said. “So everything is fun to him.” (Photo: Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic)

The actress and Room director Lenny Abrahamson attended the festival’s Room screening on October 11, 2015 in London. “With Brie something just clicks, and I can see the whole film with that person,” Abrahamson told THR of his star. (Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI)

Room stars Larson, Tremblay, Allen, and William H. Macy attended the Los Angeles premiere on October 13, 2015. Larson has said that making the film taught her “a lot about the strength of women and how ferocious the love of a mother is.” (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

The actress attended a screening at New York City’s 92nd Street Y on October 22, 2015. (Photo: Brent N. Clarke/Getty Images)

Larson and Allen, who plays her mother in Room, attended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 7th annual Governors Awards on November 14, 2015 in Hollywood. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Larson appeared at the event “Conversations With Brie Larson For ‘Room’”on December 12, 2015 in Los Angeles. The actress told Yahoo Movies that she coped with the stress of shooting Room by singing karaoke. (Photo: Vincent Sandoval/Getty Images)

Larson posed with her Breakthrough Performance Award on January 2, 2016. The festival chairman praised her Room performance for “great warmth, deep reserves of courage and strong empathy.” (Photo: Jeff Vespa/Getty Images)

Tremblay and Larson posed for photographers on January 5, 2016 in New York City. “He was my partner in crime, he was my best friend, he was my coworker…he was an equal participant,” Larson told Yahoo Movies of Tremblay. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Larson hangs out with the indie-film power couple Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan at the W Magazine event on January 7, 2016 in Los Angeles. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

The actors participated in a Q&A at a special screening for the museum’s “Contenders 2015 Series” on January 8, 2016 in Westwood, California. Tremblay told Yahoo Movies that his favorite part of making Room was “eating lots of ice cream.” (Photo: Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)

Larson and Carol star Cate Blanchett attended the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards Season Tea on January 9, 2016 in Los Angeles. Both are nominated for this year’s BAFTA for Leading Actress. (Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty Images)

Larson (winner for Best Actress in a Drama) greeted fellow nominee and Trainwreck co-star Amy Schumer (nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy), along with Schumer’s producer sister Kim Caramele, on the Golden Globes red carpet on January 10, 2016. (Photo: Joe Scarnici/Getty Images)

Larson showed off her Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. “This movie means so much to me, and so I need to start at the beginning with Emma Donoghue, who wrote the novel that inspired all of this,” she said in her acceptance speech. (Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage)

Larson, winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama, posed with Alicia Vikander (nominated in the same category for The Danish Girl) during the ceremony on January 10, 2016. (Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images)