
Michael Bay
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Biography
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).
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Known For
Production Credits

Indecent Proposal

Bad Boys

Pearl Harbor

A Quiet Place

The Purge: Anarchy

The First Purge

The Amityville Horror

Bumblebee

The Purge

Project Almanac

Ouija

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Forever Purge

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Transformers One

Songbird

I Am Number Four

Untitled Transformers Film

Transformers: The Last Knight

Armageddon

Night Court

Friday the 13th

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

A Quiet Place Part II

Transformers

Pain & Gain

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Ambulance

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Apartment 7A

Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie

Bad Boys II

The Purge: Election Year

The Last Ship

Black Sails

Drop

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

6 Underground

The Purge

The Rock

I Am Yours

A Quiet Place: Day One

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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