Michael Bay

  • Name: Michael Bay
  • Date of Birth: February 17, 1965
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Mini-bio: A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos ...( read more)for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and 'The DiVinyls'. His work won him recognition and a number of MTV award nominations. He also filmed advertisements for Nike, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Miller Lite. He won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for his "Got Milk/Aaron Burr" commercial. At Cannes, he has won the Gold Lion for The Best Beer campaign for Miller Lite, as well as the Silver for "Got Milk". In 1995 Bay was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial Director of the Year. That same year he also directed his first feature film, Bad Boys (1995), starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, which grossed more than $160 million worldwide. His follow-up film, The Rock (1996), starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, was also hugely successful, making Bay the director du jour.
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Michael Bay mini-bio: A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and 'The DiVinyls'. His work won him recognition and a number of MTV award nominations. He also filmed advertisements for Nike, Reebok, Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Miller Lite. He won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for his "Got Milk/Aaron Burr" commercial. At Cannes, he has won the Gold Lion for The Best Beer campaign for Miller Lite, as well as the Silver for "Got Milk". In 1995 Bay was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial Director of the Year. That same year he also directed his first feature film, Bad Boys (1995), starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, which grossed more than $160 million worldwide. His follow-up film, The Rock (1996), starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, was also hugely successful, making Bay the director du jour.

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Michael Bay Information:
Eye color:blue
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
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Education: Crossroads School, Wesleyan University, in Middletown,studied film at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Family:adoptive parents Jim & Harriet, sister Lisa
Resides in:los angeles
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Political affiliation:democrat
Personal interests/hobbies:film making,loves fast cars
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Other:Movieline revealed in 2001 that Bay's father is John Frankenheimer. Frankenheimer, who always denied paternity, took a DNA test in the 1980s which was negative. Bay still maintains Frankenheimer was his father, and has countered that DNA work was less sophisticated at the time.

He is a very close friend of writer/director George Lucas from whom he often seeks advice.



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  • mikejones76uk
    mikejones76uk
    Michael Bay is one of the worst directors on the planet!! anyone saying hes the best is a MORON :) enough said! your never going to see bay make REAL quailty films like the Wrestler, Grand Torino, The Godfather, Alien etc. the directors for those films had something Bay fails on! storyline and character build!! if fans of Bay think character build is looking at the boobs of Megan Fox?? I worry about you
    posted 14 days ago
  • ldnaz
    ldnaz
    i like all his film... Michael Bay's the best director.... ;)
    posted 136 days ago
  • watmanrichard
    watmanrichard
    I never seen a Michael bay movie that i hated so far at least but with his track record for me i wont Crtics can fuck off stop down all his major blockbuster movies which make huge money anyway cause the movie are good :)
    posted 137 days ago
  • JATbobDYLAN93
    JATbobDYLAN93
    his our times Ed Wood
    posted 148 days ago
  • TheBeginningAndTheEnd
    TheBeginningAndTheEnd
    Granted I hated Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys II, Michael Bay is great director who has fallen victim to critic puppets and people who blindly follow Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who think they are the peddlers of pop culture. Heck if people are so blind as to follow them, then maybe they are.
    posted 557 days ago
  • Khizzy
    Khizzy
    Man listen, fuck what everyone else says.... Michael Bay is one of the best directors out there and makes some of the best movies out there. The Rock, Armageddon, TRANSFORMERS... These are all excellent, action-packed movies. Bay has a natural eye for the camera and uses great angles. If you ask me, more directors should be as talented as him!
    posted 590 days ago
  • nicoleflowers31
    nicoleflowers31
    micheal bay i want to meet you my name is nicole flowers ar green forest
    posted 618 days ago
  • JenniferVanessa
    JenniferVanessa
    Why does everybody hate him that much? his movies are really good.
    posted 653 days ago
  • undeadfeature
    undeadfeature
    He's a blasphemy unto cinema and needs to be shot. With a .44. In the Head...twice.
    posted 654 days ago
  • d4083234
    d4083234
    please dont remake 'the Birds', just stop ruinning classics and consider another profession please i beg you!!
    posted 704 days ago
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