Michael Bay

American film director and producer (born 1965)

0.50body-of-work score · ranked #1377 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: February 17, 1965 · Los Angeles
Nationality: United States
Work: film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

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Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1
Transformers
2007 · United States · action, sci-fi
Empire 500 (2008) #309
0.181 citation
2
The Rock
1996 · United States · action, thriller
Criterion Collection spine #108
0.161 citation
3
Armageddon
1998 · United States · action, sci-fi, adventure
Criterion Collection spine #40
0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 16 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1995Bad Boys
1996The Rock
1998Armageddon
2001Pearl Harbor
2003Bad Boys II
2005The Island
2007Transformers
2009Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2011Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2013Pain & Gain
2014Transformers: Age of Extinction
201613 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2017Transformers: The Last Knight
2019Six Underground
2022Ambulance
2025We Are Storror