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Made a commercial for Coca-Cola while still a student. In 1986, he graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in English and Film. For his graduate work, he attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where he also studied film. Soon after receiving his post-graduate degree, Bay began working at Propaganda Films, directing commercials and music videos. His first feature-length film directing job was 1995's Bad Boys.
Ever since he emerged from an incredibly successful commercial and music video career, director Michael Bay made some of the biggest, loudest and highest-grossing movies of all time. Bay first made waves in the commercial world with his CLIO-winning "Got Milk?" ad campaign, while helping to reinvigorating the music career of artists like Donny Osmond with high-end music video work. But he made his biggest splash - which included a healthy amount of criticism - with his first movie, "Bad Boys" (1995), which featured tons of car chases, snappy one-liners and flying bullets. He followed his successful Hollywood entrée with "The Rock" (1996), a high-octane action thriller that had as many fans as it did critics. Bay was roundly criticized for the impossible-to-believe "Armageddon" (1998), which centered around a space shuttle landing on an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, while his take on "Pearl Harbor" (2001) drew fire for its lazy accounting of historical events and overly sappy love story. Despite his detractors, Bay's movies were big box office earners until he made "The Island" (2005), which not only became his first flop, but also generated a lawsuit for allegedly ripping off the plot of an obscure 1976 movie. Bay bounced back, however, with "Transformers" (2007), a highly-successful and positively received adaptation the 1980s cartoon that spawned two sequels and retained Bay's title as being one of Hollywood's biggest hit makers.
In May 2011, the film production company Paramount announced that Bay had been chosen to produce a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. In March 2012, Bay revealed that the new ninja turtles would actually be from an “alien race,” departing from the franchise’s original sewer mutation origins.
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR:
Transformers: Age of Extinction (25-Jun-2014)
Pain & Gain (11-Apr-2013)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (23-Jun-2011)
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (19-Jun-2009)
Transformers (21-Jun-2007)
The Island (22-Jul-2005)
Bad Boys II (18-Jul-2003)
Pearl Harbor (21-May-2001)
Armageddon (1-Jul-1998)
The Rock (7-Jun-1996)
Bad Boys (7-Apr-1995)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR:
Bad Boys II (18-Jul-2003) · Crappy Car Driver
Double Down (7-Aug-2001)
Coyote Ugly (31-Jul-2000)
Mystery Men (22-Jul-1999) · Frat Boy
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.
Religion: jewish
"I am a political person, and I have my views about America," Bay told. "I'm very proud of my country; obviously it's going through a lot of turmoil, and we have a very ineffectual government… It doesn't matter at all [whether I'm liberal or conservative]—it's not a part of what I do. I don't feel the need to go out and tell people what to believe politically."
Bay's filmography is loaded with political content and attitudes that your average American conservative can totally get behind. In Armageddon (1998), a NASA-recruited team of blue-collar oil-drillers agree to embark on a dangerous mission to blow up an asteroid and save mankind—on the condition that they never have to pay taxes again.
Revenge of the Fallen (2009), starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, easily doubles as a critique of the Obama administration's foreign policy. In this fictional Transformers universe, Barack Obama is identified as the president of the United States. (George W. Bush appears briefly in the first Transformers, where he orders some Ding Dongs on Air Force One.) President Obama orders the American armed forces to try to engage in diplomacy with the Decepticons (the bad-guy alien robots) and to suspend cooperation with the Autobots. The Obama administration also agrees to hand Sam Witwicky (LaBeouf) over to the Decepticons—the kind of act of shameful appeasement that the president's real-life conservative critics so often accuse him of perpetrating.
Quotations:
1."Do you know what directors go through? It`s just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I`m only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again `cause I`m so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?"
2. "Quentin Tarantino called me once. Someone had written `Is Michael Bay the Devil?` Quentin said, `Don`t worry, last year they called me the Antichrist".
3. "Fast cars are my only vice".
4. "I go out there to win. People don`t care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success".
5. "I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned".
6. "Directing is not a job. It`s more like a career. Which is great".
7. "I`m at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I`ve got my dogs as surrogates, but I`m ready for kids".
8. "It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year".
9. "I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn`t shy. I can be like a general. But I`ve got a shy side. I`m also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don`t let people in too much".
10. "I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime".
Height 6' 1" (1,85 m).
Quotes from others about the person
He's well known for being a tough General on set, because he shoots and moves at a very fast pace. The movies he makes also probably would have cost 30% more and taken another year to film in the hands of another director. Despite a belief that everyone in Hollywood hates him, his ability to work within a budget and demanding a strong work ethic from his crew and actors has earned him a great deal of supporters just for turning film-making into an actual work experience. He is ranked up among the most elite directors in Hollywood today, with strong relationships with friends James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. But his aggressive directing style and occasional jerkass behavior has earned him some enemies. People like Bruce Willis, Scarlett Johansson, Megan Fox (who compared him to Hitler and Napoleon in an interview) and Kate Beckinsale (who claimed that Bay made her feel "ugly" on the set) have spoken out against Bay and refuse to work with him again.
Michael is a dog-lover and has two of his own. These two bullmastiffs, Bonecrusher and Grace got their names from movie characters. His dogs have also made an appearance in some of his films. He had a third dog named Mason, but he died during the "Transformers" production. Favorite calor -yellow. Favorite films: The Shining, Raising Arizona, West Side Story, Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Michael Bay was born on February 17, 1965 in Los Angeles, California. He was adopted by Harriet and Jim Bay, a CPA, when he was two weeks old.
Born in New York and raised in Queens, John Frankenheimer wanted to become a professional tennis player. He loved movies and his favorite actor was Robert Mitchum. He decided he wanted to be an actor but then he applied for and was accepted in the Motion Picture Squadron of the Air Force where he realized his natural talent to handle a camera. After his military discharge he began a TV career in 1953 convincing CBS to hire him as an assistant director, which consisted mainly working as a cameraman at that time. He eventually started to direct the show he was working on as an assistant director. Frankenheimer still didn't want to direct films. He liked to direct live television, and he would have continued to do it if the profession itself hadn't cease to exist. He first turned to the big screen with The Young Stranger (1957) which he hated to do because he thought he didn't understand movies and wasn't used to work with only one camera. Disappointed his with first feature film experience he returned to his successful television career directing a total of 152 live television shows between 1954 and 1960. He took another chance to move to the cinema industry, working with Burt Lancaster in The Young Savages (1961) ending up becoming a successful filmmaker best known by expressing on films his views on important social and philosophical topics.
