Biography
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:...
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Drop
2025
Producer
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and...

We Are Storror
2025
Director, Producer
At the peak of their death-defying careers, the seven friends of parkour team Storror embark on what could be their final project: a globetrotting que...

Apartment 7A
2024
Producer
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.

Transformers One
2024
Producer
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate ...

Bad Boys: Legacy
2024
as Self
Take an epic lookback at 30 years of making the Bad Boys franchise with a 22-minute retrospective. Go behind the scenes of the all-new movie with an e...

A Quiet Place: Day One
2024
Producer
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die
2024
as Porsche Driver
After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023
Producer
When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a powerful faction known as the Ma...

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
2023
as Self
A short film tribute about the musician Meat Loaf, released by his family in 2023 on the anniversary of his death.

Ambulance
2022
Director, Producer
Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic care...

The Forever Purge
2021
Producer
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they c...

A Quiet Place Part II
2021
Producer
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the c...

Songbird
2020
Producer
During a pandemic lockdown, Nico, a young man with rare immunity, must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful family to reunite wit...

Bad Boys for Life
2020
as Wedding MC
Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami pol...

6 Underground
2019
as Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

6 Underground
2019
Director, Producer
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.

Bumblebee
2018
Producer
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to ...

The First Purge
2018
Producer
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggressio...

A Quiet Place
2018
Producer
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Director, Executive Producer
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history ...

Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016
Producer
In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evi...

The Purge: Election Year
2016
Producer
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Ro...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016
Producer
After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to u...

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016
Director, Producer
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Project Almanac
2015
Producer
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

Ouija
2014
Producer
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

Evolution Within Extinction
2014
as Self
The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Age of Extinction".
T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie
2014
as Self
T.J. Miller never imagined he'd be part of a massive franchise like Transformers so he sets off armed with (awkward) gifts to thank the people who mad...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014
Producer
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.

The Purge: Anarchy
2014
Producer
One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of ...

Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
as Truck Passenger (uncredited)
As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an...

Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014
Director, Executive Producer
As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an...

The Purge
2013
Producer
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During on...

Pain & Gain
2013
Director, Producer
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To ach...
Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now
2012
as Self
A brief discussion on the history of the space program, its evolution and the possibilities in store for future astronauts.

Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon
2012
The all-access feature-length documentary on the making of Michael Bay's blockbuster "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," including interviews with the c...

A Man's Story
2011
as Self
Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
Director, Executive Producer
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes ap...

I Am Number Four
2011
Producer
A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him in this sci-fi action thriller....

A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010
Producer
The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl, a group o...

The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as Self
The definitive feature-length documentary on the creation of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen".

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
Director, Executive Producer
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is drag...

Friday the 13th
2009
Producer
A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentio...

Horsemen
2009
Producer
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing...

The Unborn
2009
Producer
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

Transformers
2007
as Guy Flicked by Megatron (uncredited)
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobot...

Transformers
2007
Director, Executive Producer
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobot...
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
2007
as Himself
Documentary about the making of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" featuring interviews with producer Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Fo...

The Hitcher
2007
Producer
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchh...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2006
Producer
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and ...

The Island
2005
Director, Producer
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled envi...

The Amityville Horror
2005
Producer
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sl...

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre
2004
as Self
Feature length documentary about the making of the film featuring interviews with producer Michael Bay, director Marcus Nispel, executive producers Br...

Bad Boys II
2003
as Crappy Car Driver
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They tra...

Bad Boys II
2003
Director
Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They tra...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003
Producer
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equal...

Great White: My...My...My...
2002
Director
Relive the 1980s with hair metal band Great White through this hard-rocking music video collection, which includes such monster hits as "Once Bitten, ...

Pearl Harbor
2001
Producer, Director
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love ...

Coyote Ugly
2000
as Photographer
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sid...

Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys'
2000
as Self
Bad Boys featurette.

Mystery Men
1999
as Frat Boy
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superhe...

Armageddon
1998
as NASA Scientist (uncredited)
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...

Armageddon
1998
Director, Producer
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate ...

Armageddon: Target Earth
1998
as Self
Host Leonard Nimoy explores the science behind the film Armageddon.

The Rock
1996
Director
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into Sa...

Bad Boys
1995
Director
Marcus Burnett is a henpecked family man. Mike Lowrey is a footloose and fancy free ladies' man. Both Miami policemen, they have 72 hours to reclaim a...

I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
1993
Director
A take on "Beauty and The Beast" and "Phantom of the Opera" in which Meatloaf pursues a beautiful woman as he's chased by the cops.

Indecent Proposal
1993
Second Unit
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
1986
as Sled Agent
A true story of the lives of a family from South Carolina torn apart after the murder of Bill and Myrtle Moon. Although the killer is caught the judic...

Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
Production Intern
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legen...
The Rising
N/A
Producer
Wolf Night
N/A
Producer
After watching a horror movie, eight year old Miles suffers from nightmares, where werewolves attack him. When marks begin appearing on his body, Mile...
Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover Movie
N/A
Producer
Following the events of "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts," the Autobots team up with the G.I. Joes to go against their archenemies, the Decepticons a...
Lure
N/A
Producer
While plot details are being kept under wraps, the story is based on the haunting of the real-life King’s Tavern, considered to be the most haunted bu...
Life on Mars
N/A
Producer
The story centers on a woman who is among a handful of descendants of a Martian colony long-abandoned by Earth following a cataclysm. The woman one da...
The Birds
N/A
Producer
A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror film about a flock of birds that take over a quiet Northern California town.
I Am Yours
N/A
Producer
Logline is under wraps besides that it involves a stalking element in the vein of “Fatal Attraction.”
Meet Jimmy
N/A
Producer
A mysterious podcast causes horrific consequences once listened.
Inherit the Earth
N/A
Producer
A servant protector robot is tasked to protect a young girl.
Fast and Loose
N/A
Director
A man wakes up in Tijuana after being left for dead with absolutely no memory. As he follows a string of clues to uncover his identity, he discovers h...
Big Rig
N/A
Producer
Plot TBA. Based on the graphic novel, described as Evil Dead meets Mad Max: Fury Road.
OutRun
N/A
Director, Producer
Based on the SEGA arcade driving game where the player must avoid traffic and reach one of five destinations before time runs out. Plot TBA.
Sponsor
N/A
Producer
A drunk driver's court-ordered recovery program introduces him to an enigmatic 12-step guru — one who slowly drags him into a living hell.
Untitled Skibidi Toilet Film
N/A
Director
An adaptation of the viral Skibidi Toilet internet series.
Untitled Transformers Film
N/A
Director, Producer
Saturation Point
N/A
Producer
Dr. Jasmine Marks leads a search and rescue mission into ‘The Zone’, a section of rainforest along the equator with a climate inhospitable to intellig...