NYT and EW go to the Oscars

Yes, it's Oscar season and time for the NYT Mag's Oscar issue, dedicated to breakthrough performances. And another set of gorgeous photos (scanned by the kind folks at Livejournal). Here's my fave: James McAvoy. (I hope Atonement does well at the BAFTAs tomorrow.) Here's Lynn Hirschberg's story.

[NYT photo by Ryan McGinley; EW photo by Justin Stephens]

I also loved Ken Tucker's EW cover piece, The Year of the Bad Boys, on the year's two great villains, Anton Chigurh and Daniel Plainview, played of course by Oscar contenders Javier Bardem and Daniel Day Lewis.