Biography
Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films 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) and Ambulance (2022). Armageddon and Pearl Harbor each received four Academy Award nominations, the latter winning for Best Sound Editing. His films have grossed over US$6.6 billion worldwide, making him the fifth-most commercially successful director in history.
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Awards & recognition
- Michael Bay
Filmography50+ titles
Transformers One
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Black Sails
A Quiet Place Part II
A Quiet Place
Miami Vice
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
13 Hours
Night Court
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
The Rock
Bad Boys for Life
The Forever Purge
The Purge
The Last Ship
A Man's Story
Pearl Harbor
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior
Project Almanac
Transformers
Armageddon
Bad Boys
Bumblebee
The Island
Bad Boys II
A Quiet Place: Day One
Ambulance
The Purge: Anarchy
All Is Lost
The Purge: Election Year
Indecent Proposal
Drop
6 Underground
Pain & Gain
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Coyote Ugly
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
Songbird
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The Purge
The Neighbors
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
I Am Number Four
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Apartment 7A
Transformers: The Last Knight
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
The Amityville Horror