Michael Bay
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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
Night Court
The Purge: Election Year
The Last Ship
The Forever Purge
Ambulance
The Amityville Horror
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Friday the 13th
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Pearl Harbor
The Purge: Anarchy
The Purge
I Am Number Four
6 Underground
The Rock
Bad Boys II
Bad Boys
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
The Purge
A Quiet Place: Day One
Songbird
Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers
Ouija
Black Sails
The First Purge
Transformers One
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Bumblebee
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Project Almanac
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Pain & Gain
A Quiet Place
Indecent Proposal
A Quiet Place Part II
A Nightmare on Elm Street
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Apartment 7A
Transformers: Age of Extinction
I Am Yours
Armageddon
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