For this year’s Great Performances portfolio, TIME asked fashion photographer Paola Kudacki to take portraits of 11 actors, all of whom have been recognized for their portrayals of either real people or historical characters in some of 2012′s best films.
TIME presents video interviews with the actors from our 2013 Great Performances portfolio.
For our 2013 Great Performances portfolio, TIME spoke with Jessica Chastain about her Oscar nomination as Best Actress for her role in Zero Dark Thirty.
To mark this year’s Hollywood awards season, Sebastian Kim photographed the actors behind some of this past year’s most impressive portrayals for TIME’s Great Performances gallery. Joel Stein was also on hand to interview those capable capturers of character about the topic at hand: great performances.
Jessica Chastain explains why it’s great to work with an ensemble of women.
