Let the award season begin! The 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood awards have announced that Director Kathryn Bigelow will be honored with the “Hollywood Director Award”, Screenwriter Nora Ephron will be presented with the “Hollywood Screenwriter Award”, Disney/Pixar’s UP will get the “Hollywood Animation Award” and Scott Farrar, visual effects supervisor for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will receive the “Hollywood Visual Effects Award” at the festivals Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony.

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In honor of Nora Ephron’s movie, Julie and Julia which came out on August 7th, I have decided to put together a recipe to make the perfect movie. For the film, Ephron uses two real life stories, Julie Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme, as her main ingredients. To use the film as an example, I have put together the perfect recipe for a hit movie: Ephron is a good director, she has A-list actors starring in the film (Meryl Streep, Amy Adams),  she intertwines the lives of the two women for a good plot, the film has garnered good hype and publicity and the film had a big enough budget in order to make it worth watching. It may have the best food, but it does not necessarily have all the perfect ingredients for the perfect film.

Below, for all of our Screencrave readers, we have the recipe for a hit movie:

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If there was ever a week where we had movies for all types of people, this would be it. From your action big shot movie (Stephen Sommers‘ G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) to your romantic satire (Nicholas Jasenovec‘s Paper Heart) to the suspense thriller (David Twohy’s A Perfect Getaway), you will find something for every mood.  If you only saw one movie this weekend then it should be Nora Ephron‘s film Julie and Julia starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Ephron’s past hits alone, (Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally) should be reason enough but if you need another reason, you should look up Streep’s resume.

Here are the movies coming out on August 7th:

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We knew it would come around sooner or later! The first official trailer for the Nora Ephron feature, Julie & Julia. Ephron also wrote the screenplay for the film, which is a combination of the books “My Life in France” and the self titled “Julie & Julia”. “My Life in France” is the autobiography of the late Julia Child, while “Julie & Julia” is a book written by the film’s main character Julie Powell. The film reunites Doubt stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams as it’s leads and will open in theaters this summer on August 7.

Check out the trailer after the jump.

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