With it being Valentine’s Day weekend, and all the buzz of the Oscars coming up later this month, it seemed like a perfect time for a COMBO LIST! When most think of Best Picture winners, you think sprawling historical epics like Gone With the Wind (1939), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) or Ben Hur (1959). War is a good place to find Oscar champions as well, such as Patton (1970), Schindler’s List (1993), and Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). But what about love? What about a sweeping romance? With that idea, I’ve scoured the 87 winners of the Best Picture Oscar and found the nine best love stories. Why nine? Because ten is what you were expecting, and with love being the theme, love should be unexpected and spontaneous… and also I could only really think of these 9. Any of these movies would be great to pop open a bottle of wine, dim the lights, and cuddle up with your significant other.

Check out the 9 choices below.

Right now, Amazon is selling The Hannibal Lecter Collection Blu-ray box set for only $14.99 (that’s 63% off the list price of $39.99).

The Blu-ray box set contains all three films in the Hannibal Lecter series: Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal, the latter two of which starred Anthony Hopkins as the title serial killer.

The Blu-ray deal of the week over at Amazon this week is The Hannibal Lecter Collection Blu-ray box set for only $14.99 (that’s 63% off the list price of $39.99).

The Blu-ray box set contains all three films in the Hannibal Lecter series: Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal, the latter two of which starred Anthony Hopkins as the title serial killer.

Note, this deal is valid through Saturday, August 4, 2011 at 11:59pm EST while supplies last.

Part of Amazon’s Blu-ray Deal of the Week is The Hannibal Lecter Collection Blu-ray box set for only $26.99 (that’s 61% off the list price of $69.99).

The Blu-ray box set contains all three films in the Hannibal Lecter series: Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal, the latter two of which starred Anthony Hopkins as the title serial killer.

Note, this deal is valid through Saturday, August 20, 2011 at midnight EST while supplies last.

The Blu-ray deal of the week over at Amazon this week is The Hannibal Lecter Collection DVD box set for only $26.99 (that’s 61% off the list price of $69.99).

Note, this deal is valid through Saturday, March 5, 2011 while supplies last.

The Blu-ray box set contains all three films in the Hannibal Lecter series: Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal, the latter two of which starred Anthony Hopkins as the title serial killer.

Empire Magazine celebrated their 20th anniversary a while back, and they made sure to do it proper. Many big news stories and goodies came from the event, but one of the big plans they hatched, was to attempt to book a bunch of the world’s biggest Hollywood stars for a photo shoot where they would re-create some of their own classic film scenes.

The result: big stars showed up. Lot’s of them. And though they didn’t get completely dressed in costume (the plan was to simply shoot them in nice attire with obvious props used to clarify the film), many fantastic images now exist. The list of names is impressive and includes Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Christian Bale, Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Mel Gibson, Laurence Fishburne, Ben Stiller, Viggo Mortensen, Kevin Spacey, Matt Damon, Anthony Hopkins, and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, naturally! Movies that were re-created include Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Braveheart, The Matrix, Sev7en, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park, and Shaun of the Dead.

Click over to the other side to check out some of the images we were quite smitten with; head over to Empire in order to see many more, including a lot more stars and movies not mentioned here!