The Best Movie Year

Many consider 1939 to be the penultimate year of movie making.

I think 1962 was the best single movie year of my lifetime.

A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson)
Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
Birdman of Alcatraz (John Frankenheimer)
Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson)
Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)
How the West Was Won (Henry Hathaway & John Ford)
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet)
Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
Sweet Bird of Youth (Richard Brooks)
The Longest Day (Darryl F. Zanuck)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn)
The Music Man (Morton DaCosta)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)