Michael Bay
Directing
Born February 17, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of history's most commercially successful directors. He is co-founder of the production house the Institute and co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house that has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).
Filmography
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A Quiet Place Part III
Drop
We Are Storror
Apartment 7A
Transformers One
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior
A Quiet Place: Day One
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Porsche Driver
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
Self (archive footage)
Ambulance
The Forever Purge
A Quiet Place Part II
Songbird
Bad Boys for Life
Wedding MC
6 Underground
Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)
Bumblebee
The Purge
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
The First Purge
A Quiet Place
Transformers: The Last Knight
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The Purge: Election Year
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Billion Dollar Wreck
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Project Almanac
Ouija
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Purge: Anarchy
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Truck Passenger (uncredited)
The Last Ship
Black Sails
All Is Lost
The Purge
Pain & Gain
The Neighbors
Michael Bay
Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon
A Man's Story
Self
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
I Am Number Four
Epic Rap Battles of History
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
Self
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Friday the 13th
Horsemen
The Unborn
Transformers
Guy Flicked by Megatron (uncredited)
On the Lot
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
Self
The Hitcher
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
In The Blink Of An Eye
The Island
The Amityville Horror
Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre
Self
Bad Boys II
Crappy Car Driver
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Great White: My...My...My...
Pearl Harbor
Coyote Ugly
Photographer
Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys'
Self
Mystery Men
Frat Boy
Armageddon
NASA Scientist (uncredited)
Armageddon: Target Earth
Self
Taff
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The Rock
Bad Boys
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
Indecent Proposal
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Sled Agent
Miami Vice
Goon #3
Night Court
Raiders of the Lost Ark