Michael Bay
3 FOLLOWERS • 56 CREDITS • FEB 17, 1965 • 59
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
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Night Court
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Transformers: Age of Extinction
The Purge: Anarchy
Transformers: The Last Knight
Bad Boys II
Pain & Gain
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
6 Underground
Friday the 13th
The Amityville Horror
Indecent Proposal
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Purge
Pearl Harbor
Bad Boys
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Forever Purge
Black Sails
I Am Number Four
Transformers
The Purge: Election Year
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
The Purge
Armageddon
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
I Am Yours
Apartment 7A
The First Purge
A Quiet Place Part III
Songbird
Project Almanac
Ambulance
Transformers One
A Quiet Place
The Rock
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
A Quiet Place Part II
A Quiet Place: Day One
The Last Ship
Bumblebee
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