Jacob Tremblay: Room Actor Is Awards Season MVP

Jacob Tremblay is having a very good year. The 9-year-old actor earned critical raves for his role in Room, and as the film has made its way through the awards season circuit so too has Tremblay, winning everyone’s hearts as he rubbed elbows with stars, gave charming speeches, and even showed off a few dance moves.

He may not have gotten an Oscar nomination (this year, at least), but if there was a category for 2016's awards season MVP, he’d have it locked down. 

He didn’t end up winning Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (more on that later), but when nominations were announced in December 2015, Tremblay celebrated properly: with a banana split. 

"The mind of me right now is so blown," Tremblay tweeted after meeting the famed filmmakers. (Yes, he has Twitter account, and his bio is adorable: “Actor. Lego Enthusiast. Star Wars Fanatic.”)

“Met some of my favorite actors tonight,” Tremblay wrote on Instagram, assembling an all-star squad of which grown adults would be jealous. “I had a blast!” 

Brie Larson, who plays Tremblay’s “Ma” in Room, bonded with her young costar over Star Wars, and it’s a bond that continued post-filming. “Congrats to the coolest girl in the world!!!!” he wrote after she won a Golden Globe at the 2016 ceremony. 

When Tremblay brought his parents as his Golden Globes dates, the Internet quickly took notice of the youngster’s father — who, yes, is pretty good looking. 

Being a 9-year-old Star Wars fan isn’t that uncommon, but being a 9-year-old Star Wars fan who gets to actually battle Poe Dameron at a Golden Globes afterparty certainly is. 

Tremblay didn’t get an Oscar nod for Room, but he was happy to celebrate the four nominations it did receive — which he got all dressed up for and grabbed a copy of the film’s source material to do. "Congrats TEAM ROOM!!!" he wrote on Twitter. "We did it!!!"

Upon winning best young actor at the ceremony, Tremblay gave what’ll likely be the most adorable speech of the year. “This is super cool. This is the best day of my life,” he told the crowd, adding that he knew just the place to put the award: “on the shelf, right beside my Millennium Falcon.”

How did Tremblay celebrate his big win, you ask? By getting down to “his favorite jam” — “Uptown Funk,” naturally. 

"My favorite celebrity encounter!!" Tremblay captioned an Instagram photo. The Force is strong with this one. 

No sore losers here. After losing the supporting actor category to Beasts of No Nation's Idris Elba, Tremblay jokingly reminisced about it while presenting another category with Brie Larson later in the show. “I can still remember the first time I got nominated for a SAG Award,” he said. “I was only 9 years old, and I was competing against Batman.” (Christian Bale was also nominated in his category.)

The only thing better than this photo is the story Tremblay later told about getting it. "I just walked straight up to him and I noticed a huge line of people trying to meet him,” he said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “And I was just like, ‘Oh, I’m a kid. I can skip it.’ So I skipped it and just said, ‘Hi.’”

Another of Tremblay’s star sightings from the SAG Awards, which he posted on Instagram with the Canada-appropriate hashtag #eh. 

After presenting an award to Elba for Luther during the SAG Awards ceremony, the two snapped a photo together at one of the afterparties.  

The man behind Rocky Balboa let Tremblay throw a (faux) punch at the Oscar nominees luncheon in February 2016. “Hangin’ with the Champ!” he wrote on Instagram. 

“J-Trem meets J-Law,” he captioned this meet-and-greet. Jacob Tremblay, may the awards season cuteness odds be ever in your favor.  

At the Governors Awards in November 2015, Tremblay crossed paths with Depp and, per the young star, the pair forged a fast friendship. “Last night I met my favorite actor #JohnnyDepp! We are now best buddies! #Mindblown,” he tweeted. 

Repping his home province of British Columbia, Tremblay attended the 3rd annual Evening With Canada's Stars in Los Angeles, Calif. Ever the charmer, he found new friends in two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Before the Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 27 — where Tremblay was a presenter and Beasts of No Nation star Abraham Attah won an award — the pair narrowly escaped a dinosaur attack at Universal Studios Hollywood. “#AbrahamAttah and I almost got eaten today!” Tremblay captioned an Instagram video. 

At the Independent Spirit Awards, Tremblay (jokingly) marveled that he got to present an award with his hero — a Marvel hero, to be exact. “Is it hard to fly with those heavy metal wings? Where’s Red Wing, your highly trained hunting falcon who joins you in battle against your enemies?” he asked Mackie on stage. (“It looks like we’re having a Santa Claus issue,” the Avengers actor replied.)