Michael Bay
Born: 1965-02-17
Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) 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), 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), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).
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- 166 nominations
1986
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2007
- Transformers as Guy Flicked by Megatron (uncredited) 🏆
- Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel as Himself 🏆
2009
2011
2012
- Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now as Self 🏆
- Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon 🏆
2014
- Evolution Within Extinction as Self
- T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie as Self 🏆
- Transformers: Age of Extinction as Truck Passenger (uncredited) 🏆