Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 17, 1965
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
101 titles
Michael Bay
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
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 (archive footage)
Ambulance
Director
The Forever Purge
Producer
A Quiet Place Part II
Producer
Songbird
Producer
Bad Boys for Life
Wedding MC
6 Underground
Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)
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
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
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)
The Last Ship
Executive Producer
Black Sails
Executive Producer
All Is Lost
Thanks
The Purge
Producer
Pain & Gain
Producer
The Neighbors
Michael Bay
Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon
Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now
Self
A Man's Story
Self
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Director
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
Friday the 13th
Producer
Horsemen
Producer