Michael Bay filmography

American director and producer Michael Bay started his career directing music videos and commercials. This included a commercial for the American Red Cross in 1992 which received a Clio Award, and music videos for Donny Osmond, Styx and Meat Loaf. Jerry Bruckheimer recognizing his achievements on commercials offered him the chance to direct one of his productions as Bay's feature film debut.[1] Bay did so with Bruckheimer's action comedy Bad Boys starring Will Smith, and Martin Lawrence. In the same year he also received a Directors Guild of America Award for his work on commercials.[2] Bay followed this with action film The Rock starring Sean Connery, and Nicolas Cage. The film was a commercial success grossing over $335 million at the worldwide box office.[3] In 1998, he directed, and produced the science fiction disaster film Armageddon which was the highest-grossing film of the year,[4] and Bay received the Saturn Award for Best Director.[5] After the success of Armageddon he also became the youngest director to gross $1 billion at the worldwide box office.[6][7]

Bay on the set of his film Transformers in 2006

Three years later he directed and produced the war film Pearl Harbor (2001) which was negatively received by critics[8] but grossed over $449 million at the box office.[9] Later in the same year, Bay founded his own production company Platinum Dunes with Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form.[10] In 2003, Bay directed the action comedy sequel Bad Boys II which saw Smith and Lawrence reprise their roles.[11] Two years later he directed science fiction action film The Island (2005), and produced the horror remake The Amityville Horror (2005).[12]

In 2007, Bay directed, and produced the first film in the live-action Transformers film series based on the toy line of the same name. It was a commercial success grossing over $709 million at the box office.[13] He followed this by directing its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). The film drew negative reception from critics[14] but grossed over $836 million at the box office.[15] The third instalment in the series Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) became the first of his films to gross over $1 billion at the box office.[16] Two years later Bay directed and produced crime comedy Pain & Gain (2013). In 2014, he directed, and produced a fourth Transformer film, Transformers: Age of Extinction, which grossed over $1 billion at the box office, and was the highest-grossing film at the worldwide box office that year.[17] Three years later, he directed the fifth entry in the Transformers film series, Transformers: The Last Knight which received generally negative reviews from critics and was the lowest-grossing worldwide in the franchise's history.[18][19]

Film

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Title	Year	Credited as		Ref(s)
		Director	Producer
Bad Boys	1995	Yes	No	[20]
The Rock	1996	Yes	No	[20]
Armageddon	1998	Yes	Yes	[21]
Pearl Harbor	2001	Yes	Yes	[22]
Bad Boys II	2003	Yes	No	[20][23]
The Island	2005	Yes	Yes	[24]
Transformers	2007	Yes	executive	[24]
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	2009	Yes	executive	[24]
Transformers: Dark of the Moon	2011	Yes	executive	[24]
Pain & Gain	2013	Yes	Yes	[25]
Transformers: Age of Extinction	2014	Yes	executive	[24]
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	2016	Yes	Yes	[26]
Transformers: The Last Knight	2017	Yes	executive	[27]
6 Underground	2019	Yes	Yes	[28]

Films produced

Title	Year	Ref(s)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	2003	[24]
The Amityville Horror	2005	[24]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning	2006	[24]
The Hitcher	2007	[29]
The Unborn	2009	[30]
Friday the 13th		[31]
Horsemen		[32]
A Nightmare on Elm Street	2010	[24]
I Am Number Four	2011	[33]
The Purge	2013	[34]
The Purge: Anarchy	2014	[35]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles		[36]
Ouija		[37]
Project Almanac	2015	[38]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	2016	[39]
The Purge: Election Year		[40]
Ouija: Origin of Evil		[41]
A Quiet Place	2018	[42]
The First Purge		[43]
Bumblebee		[44]
A Quiet Place Part II	2020	[45]
The Forever Purge	2021	[46]
Songbird	TBA	[47]

Acting credits

Title	Year	Role	Ref(s)
Armageddon	1998	NASA extra	[48]
Mystery Men	1999	Frat Boy	[49]
Coyote Ugly	2000	Photographer	[50]
Double Down	2001	Extra	[51]
Bad Boys II	2003	Crappy Car Driver	[20][23]
Bad Boys for Life	2020	Wedding MC	[52]

Television

Title	Year(s)	Role	Network	Notes	Ref(s)
Miami Vice	1986	Goon #3	NBC	Episode: "Free Verse"	[51]
Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo	1986	Sled agent	CBS	Television film	[53]
The Neighbors	2013	Himself	ABC	Episode: "Mother Clubbers"	[54]
Black Sails	2014–2017	—	Starz	Executive producer	[55][56]
The Last Ship	2014–2018	—	TNT		[55][56]
Jack Ryan	2018–present	—	Amazon Video		[57][58]
The Purge	2018–2019	—	USA Network		[59][60]

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External links

• Michael Bay filmography on IMDb