
Michael Bay
3 FOLLOWERS • 60 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

The Amityville Horror

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Bad Boys

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Armageddon

Bad Boys II

6 Underground

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Pearl Harbor

The Purge

Night Court

Transformers: The Last Knight

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Pain & Gain

The Rock

I Am Number Four

A Quiet Place Part II

Transformers One

Songbird

The Purge: Election Year

Ambulance

Indecent Proposal

The Last Ship

A Quiet Place

Friday the 13th

Apartment 7A

Drop

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie

I Am Yours

The First Purge

The Purge: Anarchy

Bumblebee

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Transformers

Ouija

A Quiet Place: Day One

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Project Almanac

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Forever Purge

The Purge

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Black Sails
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