Michael Bay
Directing
1965-02-17 · 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).
Filmography
TheatersA Quiet Place Part III
2027 · Movie
Drop
2025 · Movie
We Are Storror
2025 · Movie
A History of Protection
2025 · Movie
Apartment 7A
2024 · Movie
Transformers One
2024 · Movie
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior
2024 · Series
A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 · Movie
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
2024 · Movie
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023 · Movie
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
2022 · Movie
Ambulance
2022 · Movie
The Forever Purge
2021 · Movie
A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · Movie
Songbird
2020 · Movie
Bad Boys for Life
2020 · Movie
6 Underground
2019 · Movie
Bumblebee
2018 · Movie
The Purge
2018 · Series
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018 · Series
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018 · Series
The First Purge
2018 · Movie
A Quiet Place
2018 · Movie
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Movie
Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · Movie
The Purge: Election Year
2016 · Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016 · Movie
Billion Dollar Wreck
2016 · Series
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016 · Movie
Project Almanac
2015 · Movie
Ouija
2014 · Movie
Evolution Within Extinction
2014 · Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 · Movie
The Purge: Anarchy
2014 · Movie
Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014 · Movie
The Last Ship
2014 · Series
Black Sails
2014 · Series
All Is Lost
2013 · Movie
The Purge
2013 · Movie
Pain & Gain
2013 · Movie
The Neighbors
2012 · Series
Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon
2012 · Movie
Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now
2012 · Movie
A Man's Story
2011 · Movie
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Movie
I Am Number Four
2011 · Movie
Epic Rap Battles of History
2010 · Series
A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · Movie
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Movie
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009 · Movie
Friday the 13th
2009 · Movie
Horsemen
2009 · Movie
The Unborn
2009 · Movie
Transformers
2007 · Movie
On the Lot
2007 · Series
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
2007 · Movie
The Hitcher
2007 · Movie
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2006 · Movie
In The Blink Of An Eye
2005 · Movie
The Island
2005 · Movie
The Amityville Horror
2005 · Movie
Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre
2004 · Movie
Bad Boys II
2003 · Movie
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · Movie
Great White: My...My...My...
2002 · Movie
Pearl Harbor
2001 · Movie
Coyote Ugly
2000 · Movie
Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys'
2000 · Movie
Mystery Men
1999 · Movie
Armageddon
1998 · Movie
Armageddon: Target Earth
1998 · Movie
Taff
1997 · Series
The Rock
1996 · Movie
Bad Boys
1995 · Movie
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
1993 · Movie
Indecent Proposal
1993 · Movie
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992 · Series
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
1986 · Movie
Miami Vice
1984 · Series
Night Court
1984 · Series
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Movie
Detention
Movie
Skibidi Toilet
Movie
OutRun
Movie
The Caretaker
Movie
Shredded
Movie
Wolf Night
Movie
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
Movie
Sponsor
Movie
Saturation Point
Movie
Life on Mars
Movie
Big Rig
Movie
Untitled The Purge Film
Movie
The Birds
Movie
I Am Yours
Movie
Inherit the Earth
Movie
Meet Jimmy
Movie
Untitled Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Sequel
Movie
The Rising
Movie
Blink of an Eye
Movie
The Fisherman
Movie
Untitled Transformers Film
Movie
Lure
Movie
Operation Epic Fury
Movie