Michael Bay
- Directing
- February 17, 1965 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action movies 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), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).
Known for
Filmography
- A Quiet Place Part III · Producer
- Drop · Producer
- We Are Storror · Director, Producer
- A History of Protection · Director
- Apartment 7A · Producer
- Transformers One · Producer
- Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior · Executive producer
- A Quiet Place: Day One · Producer
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die · Porsche Driver
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts · Producer
- Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life · Self
- Ambulance · Director, Producer
- The Forever Purge · Producer
- A Quiet Place Part II · Producer
- Songbird · Producer
- Bad Boys for Life · Wedding MC
- 6 Underground · Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited), Director
- Bumblebee · Producer
- The Purge · Executive producer
- Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan · Executive producer
- The First Purge · Producer
- A Quiet Place · Producer
- Transformers: The Last Knight · Director, Executive producer
- Ouija: Origin of Evil · Producer
- The Purge: Election Year · Producer
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows · Producer
- Billion Dollar Wreck · Executive producer
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi · Director, Producer
- Project Almanac · Producer
- Ouija · Producer
- Evolution Within Extinction · Self
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles · Producer
- The Purge: Anarchy · Producer
- Transformers: Age of Extinction · Truck Passenger (uncredited), Director
- The Last Ship · Executive producer
- Black Sails · Executive producer
- All Is Lost · Thanks
- The Purge · Producer
- Pain & Gain · Producer, Director
- The Neighbors · Michael Bay
- Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now · Self
- Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon
- A Man's Story · Self
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon · Director, Executive producer
- I Am Number Four · Producer
- A Nightmare on Elm Street · Producer
- The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen · Self
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen · Director, Executive producer
- Friday the 13th · Producer
- Horsemen · Producer
- The Unborn · Producer
- Transformers · Guy Flicked by Megatron (uncredited), Director
- On the Lot
- Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel · Self
- The Hitcher · Producer
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning · Producer
- In The Blink Of An Eye · Consulting Producer
- The Island · Producer, Director
- The Amityville Horror · Producer
- Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre · Self
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre · Producer
- Bad Boys II · Crappy Car Driver, Director
- Great White: My...My...My... · Director
- Pearl Harbor · Director, Producer
- Coyote Ugly · Photographer
- Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys' · Self
- Mystery Men · Frat Boy
- Armageddon · NASA Scientist (uncredited), Producer
- Armageddon: Target Earth · Self
- Taff · Self
- The Rock · Director
- Bad Boys · Director
- I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) · Director
- Indecent Proposal · Second Unit
- MTV Movie & TV Awards · Self
- Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo · Sled Agent
- Miami Vice · Goon #3
- Night Court · Production Office Assistant
- Raiders of the Lost Ark · Production Intern
- The Rising · Producer