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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
A Quiet Place: Day One 2024Movie Producer
The Purge: Anarchy 2014Movie Producer
A Quiet Place 2018Movie Producer
The Forever Purge 2021Movie Google Play Movies Producer
The Purge 2013Movie Google Play Movies Producer
Friday the 13th 2009Movie HBO MaxGoogle Play Movies Producer
The Island 2005Movie Director, Producer
A Quiet Place Part II 2021Movie Google Play Movies Producer
Pearl Harbor 2001Movie Director, Producer
Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014Movie HBO Max Director
Bad Boys for Life 2020Movie as Wedding MC
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014Movie Google Play Movies Producer
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2016Movie HBO MaxGoogle Play Movies Director, Producer
Transformers: The Last Knight 2017Movie HBO MaxGoogle Play Movies Director
I Am Number Four 2011Movie Producer
Bad Boys II 2003Movie Director
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010Movie Google Play Movies Producer
6 Underground 2019Movie Director, Producer
The Purge: Election Year 2016Movie Google Play Movies Producer
Bad Boys 1995Movie Director
The First Purge 2018Movie Google Play Movies Producer
Armageddon 1998Movie Director, Producer
Pain & Gain 2013Movie Google Play Movies Director, Producer
The Rock 1996Movie Director
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003Movie Producer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 2016Movie Google Play Movies Producer
Ouija: Origin of Evil 2016Movie Google Play Movies Producer
The Amityville Horror 2005Movie Producer
Bumblebee 2018Movie HBO Max Producer
Ambulance 2022Movie Google Play Movies Director, Producer
Coyote Ugly 2000Movie as Photographer
Songbird 2020Movie Producer
The Unborn 2009Movie Google Play Movies Producer
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning 2006Movie Producer
The Hitcher 2007Movie Producer
Project Almanac 2015Movie Google Play Movies Producer
Ouija 2014Movie Producer
Drop 2025Movie HBO Max Producer
Apartment 7A 2024Movie Producer
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009Movie Google Play Movies Director
Transformers 2007Movie HBO Max Director
Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011Movie HBO Max Director
Horsemen 2009Movie Producer
A Quiet Place Part III 2027Movie Producer
A Man's Story 2011Movie as Self