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Michael Bay

Known for: Directing

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).

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Transformers One 2024Movie Producer

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 2016Movie Producer

A Quiet Place 2018Movie Producer

The Forever Purge 2021Movie Producer

A Quiet Place: Day One 2024Movie Producer

The Purge: Anarchy 2014Movie Producer

The Purge 2013Movie Producer

Friday the 13th 2009Movie Producer

The Island 2005Movie Director, Producer

6 Underground 2019Movie Director, Producer

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2016Movie Director, Producer

A Quiet Place Part II 2021Movie Producer

পার্ল হার্বার 2001Movie Director, Producer

Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014Movie Director

Bad Boys for Life 2020Movie as Wedding MC

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014Movie Producer

Transformers: The Last Knight 2017Movie Director

I Am Number Four 2011Movie Producer

Bad Boys II 2003Movie Director

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010Movie Producer

Armageddon 1998Movie Director, Producer

The Purge: Election Year 2016Movie Producer

The Hitcher 2007Movie Producer

Bad Boys 1995Movie Director

The First Purge 2018Movie Producer

Pain & Gain 2013Movie Director, Producer

দ্য রক 1996Movie Director

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003Movie Producer

Transformers 2007Movie Director

Songbird 2020Movie Producer

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009Movie Director

Ouija: Origin of Evil 2016Movie Producer

The Amityville Horror 2005Movie Producer

বাম্বলবি 2018Movie Producer

Coyote Ugly 2000Movie as Photographer

The Unborn 2009Movie Producer

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning 2006Movie Producer

Ambulance 2022Movie Director, Producer

Project Almanac 2015Movie Producer

Ouija 2014Movie Producer

Drop 2025Movie Producer

Apartment 7A 2024Movie Producer

Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011Movie Director

Horsemen 2009Movie Producer

A Quiet Place Part III 2027Movie Producer

A Man's Story 2011Movie as Self