CB has already covered these photos of Elizabeth Olsen wearing a silver tent-like dress at the ELLE’s Women in Hollywood Tribute gala. However, I’d just like to add that for once, I am proud to say that Lizzie’s dress provides me with the opportunity to declare that “the carpets match the drapes” without sounding perverted in at least the slightest sense. So bravo on that end.

Lizzie has just received the Best Actress award at the Ghent Film Festival for her role in Martha Marcy May Marlene (which also stars John Hawkes and Hugh Dancy), but she’s already so busy filming other movies that Martha director Sean Durkin accepted the award on her behalf. In addition to her current work, she’s already completed work on Silent House (an art-house horror movie), Red Lights (a supernatural drama with Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver), and Liberal Arts (a dramedy with Zac Efron and Josh Radnor). Not too shabby for a 22-year-old who took a year away from college to film a few “little” movies, right?

Since Martha comes out in limited release this week, Lizzie sat down for a few interviews. Here are some relevant excerpts:

On Being Recognized By A Stranger: “It was really weird. I was walking in Tribeca and a guy just came up to me and said, ‘I just saw the trailer for your movie, and I’m really looking forward to it,’ and then he kept on walking,” the young actress recalled. “I hope he wasn’t confusing me with someone else.”

Sean Durkin On Elizabeth: Durkin recalls how Olsen arrived at her audition with four giant suitcases – the accouterments of a frazzled college junior more than Hollywood royalty. “I think I had my detergent with me,” Olsen said. She had had to move out of her apartment the same day, and though she’d stashed some things with Mary-Kate, she was heading to a film set and was essentially homeless. “When the audition was over, I was expecting some big dude to come in and carry her stuff,” Durkin said. “But when I asked her, she’s like ‘Nope,’ and threw some bags over her shoulder. There was something very vibrant and determined about her.”

John Hawkes On Elizabeth: “You can’t help but fall for her. There is an openness and a joy about her, but tempered with street smarts and an intelligence that’s rare for someone her age.”

On The Future: Ms. Olsen anticipates graduating this winter or spring. She said that she would stay in her 300-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in the West Village but that she would also take a partial share in a friend’s apartment in Los Angeles. Besides getting more movie roles, Ms. Olsen said she was eager to land a meaty theater role. Her dream? “I want to play Ophelia in Hamlet, Masha in Three Sisters and, really, really later in life, I’d love to play Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey.”

Career longevity, along with challenging roles, is her goal. “I’m not interested in instant gratification. And I think the only way you can do that is to make choices that are representative of where you are and don’t get caught up in what other people want you to do.”

[From LA Times and NY Times]

So The Enquirer, in their report that Lizzie was living in squalor in a 500-square-foot apartment, was clearly off the mark. Instead, Lizzie makes her home in a mere 300-square feet (enough for a futon, a kitchenette, and a tiny bathroom, perhaps), which is actually a detail that The Enquirer could’ve used to form a more convincing story. Oh well. Regardless of the details, her story is one that’ll see her moving on up in the future.

Back to these photos — Lizzie’s hair and makeup look really good here. She looks more like an Olsen in a good way, not in a narrow-bridged nose way. Perhaps it really was the lighting that made her look so tweaked at the New York Film Festival? Or maybe she just used a better makeup artist.

Photos courtesy of Fame