Read: Lenny Abrahamson's 5-Page Letter To Author Emma Donoghue That Convinced Her To Let Him Make 'Room'

The journey to making a movie can be a long one, as finances come together, endless meetings take place, followed by rounds of casting, approvals, and more, but for director Lenny Abrahamson, his Oscar-nominated "Room" started with one thing — a letter. After reading Emma Donoghue's novel on which the movie is based, the filmmaker put down his vision across five pages and sent it to the author, hoping he could convince to entrust her bestseller with his approach. 

"Somebody recommended [the book] and I read it. I really loved it, and I’m a parent—I had a boy of nearly four when I read the novel—so I think my feelings for him really transferred into my feeling for the character. I had a very strong impulse to make it into a film and I should make it into a film and nobody else should make it into a film," he explained to ComingSoon last fall. "I thought at the same time that my chances were pretty slim, because it was a well-known novel. I remember...