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Michael Bay
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 cinematogra…
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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).
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2027
A Quiet Place Part III
Movie Producer
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2025
Drop
Movie Producer
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2025
We Are Storror
Movie Director
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2025
A History of Protection
Movie Director
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2024
Apartment 7A
Movie Producer
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2024
Transformers One
Movie Producer
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2024
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
A Quiet Place: Day One
Movie Producer
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2024
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Movie Porsche Driver
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2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Movie Producer
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2022
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Ambulance
Movie Director
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2021
The Forever Purge
Movie Producer
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2021
A Quiet Place Part II
Movie Producer
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2020
Songbird
Movie Producer
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2020
Bad Boys for Life
Movie Wedding MC
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2019
6 Underground
Movie Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)
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2018
Bumblebee
Movie Producer
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2018
The Purge
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
The First Purge
Movie Producer
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2018
A Quiet Place
Movie Producer
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2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie Director
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2016
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Movie Producer
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2016
The Purge: Election Year
Movie Producer
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2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Movie Producer
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2016
Billion Dollar Wreck
TV show Executive Producer
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2016
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Movie Director
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2015
Project Almanac
Movie Producer
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2014
Ouija
Movie Producer
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2014
Evolution Within Extinction
Movie Self
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2014
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Movie Producer
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2014
The Purge: Anarchy
Movie Producer
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2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Movie Truck Passenger (uncredited)
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2014
The Last Ship
TV show Executive Producer
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2014
Black Sails
TV show Executive Producer
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2013
All Is Lost
Movie Thanks
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2013
The Purge
Movie Producer
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2013
Pain & Gain
Movie Producer
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2012
The Neighbors
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