Michael Bay

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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).

Filmography

• A Quiet Place Part III (2027)
• Drop (2025)
• We Are Storror (2025)
• A History of Protection (2025)
• Apartment 7A (2024)
• Transformers One (2024)
• A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
• Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
• Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life (2022)
• Ambulance (2022)
• The Forever Purge (2021)
• A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
• Songbird (2020)
• Bad Boys for Life (2020)
• 6 Underground (2019)
• Bumblebee (2018)
• The First Purge (2018)
• A Quiet Place (2018)
• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
• Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
• The Purge: Election Year (2016)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
• Project Almanac (2015)
• Ouija (2014)
• Evolution Within Extinction (2014)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
• The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
• All Is Lost (2013)
• The Purge (2013)
• Pain & Gain (2013)
• Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now (2012)
• Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon (2012)
• A Man's Story (2011)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
• I Am Number Four (2011)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
• The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
• Friday the 13th (2009)
• Horsemen (2009)
• The Unborn (2009)
• Transformers (2007)
• Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel (2007)
• The Hitcher (2007)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
• In The Blink Of An Eye (2005)
• The Island (2005)
• The Amityville Horror (2005)
• Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre (2004)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
• Bad Boys II (2003)
• Great White: My...My...My... (2002)
• Pearl Harbor (2001)
• Coyote Ugly (2000)
• Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys' (2000)
• Mystery Men (1999)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Armageddon: Target Earth (1998)
• The Rock (1996)
• Bad Boys (1995)
• I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (1993)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)
• Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Skibidi Toilet
• Saturation Point
• Sponsor
• Wolf Night
• Shredded
• OutRun
• Detention
• The Caretaker
• Big Rig
• The Fisherman
• Life on Mars
• Operation Epic Fury
• Untitled The Purge Film
• Blink of an Eye
• Untitled Transformers Film
• Inherit the Earth
• The Birds
• I Am Yours
• Meet Jimmy
• Lure
• The Rising