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Michael Bay
Known for: DirectingMichael 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
The Purge: Anarki
A Quiet Place
The Forever Purge
The Purge
Fredag den 13.
The Island
A Quiet Place 2
Pearl Harbor
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Bad Boys for Life
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Transformers: The Last Knight
A Quiet Place: Day One
I Am Number Four
Bad Boys II
A Nightmare on Elm Street
6 Underground
The Purge: Election Year
Bad Boys
The First Purge
Armageddon
Pain & Gain
The Rock
Motorsavsmassakren
Producer
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The Amityville Horror
Bumblebee
Ambulance
Coyote Ugly
Sangfugl
The Unborn
The Hitcher
Project Almanac
Drop
Ouija
Apartment 7A
Transformers: De faldnes hævn
Transformers
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Horsemen
A Quiet Place Part III
Producer
A Man's Story
as Self