
Michael Bay
3 FOLLOWERS • 59 CREDITS • FEB 17, 1965 • 60
Biography
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is a film director and producer. He is best known for directing high-budget action films characterized by fast edits, polished visuals and substantial use of practical effects. His films, which include "The Rock" (1996), "Armageddon" (1998), "Pearl Harbor" (2001) and entries in the "Bad Boys" (1995-2003) and "Transformers" (2007-2017) series, have grossed over three billion dollars worldwide. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute, a.k.a. The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness; he is co-chair and part-owner of the special effects house Digital Domain; and he co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production company which has remade horror movies including "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003), "Friday the 13th" (2009) and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (2010).
Known For
Production Credits

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

The Purge: Election Year

A Quiet Place: Day One

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Transformers: The Last Knight

Bumblebee

I Am Number Four

The First Purge

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Black Sails

6 Underground

Pain & Gain

Songbird

Drop

A Quiet Place Part II

Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Transformers: Age of Extinction

I Am Yours

The Last Ship

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Friday the 13th

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The Rock

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Ouija: Origin of Evil

The Forever Purge

The Purge: Anarchy

Indecent Proposal

Armageddon

Project Almanac

The Amityville Horror

A Quiet Place

Ambulance

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

The Purge

Transformers

Night Court

Bad Boys II

The Purge

Bad Boys

Ouija

Transformers One

Apartment 7A

Pearl Harbor
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