Michael Bay
American film director and producer · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1965 · age 61
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.
Michael Bay is read about 2,828 times a day, in 62 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the SaviorSeries, Producer
A Quiet Place: Day OneFilm, 2024Producer2022
AmbulanceFilm, Director, Producer2020
Bad Boys for LifeFilm, Wedding MC2019
6 UndergroundFilm, Director, Producer2018
The PurgeSeries, Producer2017
Transformers: The Last KnightFilm, Director, Producer2016
Billion Dollar WreckSeries, Producer2015
Project AlmanacFilm, Producer2014
Black SailsSeries, Producer
The Last ShipSeries, 2014Producer2013
Pain & GainFilm, Director, Producer2012
The NeighborsSeries, Michael Bay2011
I Am Number FourFilm, Producer2009
Friday the 13thFilm, Producer2007
On the LotSeries2006
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The BeginningFilm, Producer2003
Bad Boys IIFilm, Director2001
Pearl HarborFilm, Director, Producer1998
ArmageddonFilm, Director, Producer1997
TaffSeries1995
Bad BoysFilm, Director1992
MTV Movie & TV AwardsSeries1984
Miami ViceSeries, Goon #31965Born17 February 1965People around Michael
Close ties
Andrew Form Also in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Josh Duhamel Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Megan Fox Michael directed Transformers (2007)
John Turturro Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Peter Cullen Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Jerry Bruckheimer Produced Armageddon and Bad Boys for Life
Lorenzo di Bonaventura Also in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Glenn Morshower Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Ian Bryce Also in The Island (2005)
Tom DeSanto Also in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Don Murphy Also in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Bradley Fuller Also in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Mark Ryan Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Will Smith Michael directed Bad Boys and Bad Boys II
Robert Foxworth Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Mark Wahlberg Michael directed Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
John Krasinski Michael produced A Quiet Place (2018)
Tyrese Gibson Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Joe Pantoliano Michael directed Bad Boys and Bad Boys II
Peter Stormare Michael directed Armageddon and Bad Boys II
Kevin Dunn Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Julie White Michael directed Transformers (2007)
Kim Coates Michael directed The Island and Bad Boys
Chris Ellis Michael directed Transformers and Armageddon
Known for
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Transformers One 2024
A Quiet Place Part II 2021
A Quiet Place 2018
Bad Boys: Ride or Die 2024
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2016
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
122 credits on file
Television 11
Media & music
Awards
About this person
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, Pain & Gain (2013), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$6.6 billion worldwide, making him the fifth-most commercially successful director in history.
