Michael Bay

Known for DirectingBorn 1965-02-17 (age 61)Los Angeles, California, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Armageddon: Target Earth

Transformers One

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Evolution Within Extinction

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Black Sails

Raiders of the Lost Ark

A Quiet Place Part II

A Quiet Place

In The Blink Of An Eye

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys'

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Bad Boys for Life

Miami Vice

Night Court

I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)

The Rock

The Purge

The Forever Purge

The Last Ship

Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior

A Man's Story

Project Almanac

Pearl Harbor

Transformers

Bumblebee

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen

A Quiet Place: Day One

Ambulance

Armageddon

Bad Boys

The Purge: Anarchy

The Island

All Is Lost

Bad Boys II

Drop

The Purge: Election Year

6 Underground

Pain & Gain

The Neighbors

The Purge

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Apartment 7A

Indecent Proposal

Ouija: Origin of Evil