W Magazine's The Movie Issue

W Magazine is featuring the 39 best performances of the year with photographs of the actors taken by fabulous photographer Tim Walker and of course the result is flawless.

Among the ones i've seen there's the fantastic Bill Hader in 'The Skeleton Twins' (such a shame they didn't feature Kristen Wiig), Scarlett Johansson in 'Under the Skin' (portrait at the source) or Ethan Hawke for 'Boyhood' but i'm anxious to check out the rest as Oscar season is coming.

I'm not going to post the 39 portraits but i'm obviously going to post the ones i liked best (as usual) after the cut but be sure to check out the rest at the source:

 Bradley Cooper, American Sniper

 Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

 Tommy Lee Jones

 Emma Stone

 Bill Hader, The Skeleton Twins

 Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt

 Edward Norton, Birdman

 Tessa Thompson, Dear White People

 Dan Stevens

 Amy Adams, Big Eyes

 J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

 Eddie Redmayne

sources: wmagazine