Michael Bay - The Choosen One

I'd decided to review some of the best directors weekly in my blog to ignite more excitement to my viewers to read and judge the quality among them and also listing down their movies that had been made. I'm interested at Michael Bay this week, well-known as an action-packed driven director, his huge success will totally be 'Transformers" which been shown last year. Humans do make mistakes right, of course some of them was flopped anyway enjoy this:

Michael Benjamin Bay
Born: February 17, 1965
Height: 6'3"/1.9 meters
High School: Crossroads High
Undergraduate education: Wesleyan University Class of '86'
Graduate education: Pasadena Art Center College of Design

After launching his career as an award-winning commercial and music video director, Michael Bay quickly emerged as one of Hollywood's boldest and most bankable feature film directors. Characterized by his aggressive visual style and high-octane action sequences that have become the L.A. native's cinematic signature, the films that Bay has directed and produced have hit $3 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

Now established as one of the industry's elite action filmmakers, Bay has been dazzling audiences since the premiere of his first feature film, Bad Boys, starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, in 1995. The $9 million film won Best Action Sequence at the MTV Movie Awards, and it grossed over $140 million worldwide, making it Columbia Pictures' top-grossing film of that year. Bay's impressive sophomore effort, The Rock, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, followed a year later. Shot on location on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, The Rock surpassed Bay's blockbuster debut, taking in more than $335 million worldwide. His third directing effort was Armageddon, an idea he came up with, with writer Jonathan Hensleigh; Bay produced with Jerry Bruckheimer. Armageddon starred Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, and earned over $550 million around the globe.

Bay continued his hot streak in 2001, directing the epic Pearl Harbor and sharing producer credit on the film with Bruckheimer. Their collaboration once again bore fruit, as Pearl Harbor raked in $450 million in box office receipts worldwide, and at the time became the best selling DVD of all time. In 2003, Bay reteamed with Smith, Lawrence and Bruckheimer for the summer hit Bad Boys II. The filmmaker's followed that effort with the action thriller The Island, starring Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean and Steve Buscemi.

Bay's most recent film was the story of the summer of 2007: Transformers. Bay turned an 80s cartoon into an exciting live-action blockbuster that grossed over $700 million worldwide, making it Bay's most successful film to date, and established it as Dreamworks' biggest film franchise. It's currently on track to be the bestselling DVD of 2007.

He is currently at work developing a sequel to Transformers, slated for a summer 2009 release.

Bay's production company, Bay Films, remains one of the most cutting-edge production entities in Hollywood today and continues to grow. Five years ago, Bay joined forces with producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form to create Platinum Dunes, a company whose mission is to make films with budgets under $20 million that would give talented commercial and video directors the chance to break into the feature world. The first offering from the company was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a re-imagining of the 1974 cult classic, which opened to top-notch reviews and grossed over $110 million worldwide. The company's second film, The Amityville Horror, reached receipts of more than $108 million. Two more films quickly followed: the original script, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: The Beginning, which earned $51 million; and a re-conceptualization of the 1986 thriller, The Hitcher, that garnered $20 million. Platinum Dunes's next film is The Horsemen, starring Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Peter Stormare and Eric Balfour under the direction of Jonas Akerlund, and executive-produced by Bay. Also on the slate are re-imaginings of Friday the 13th, Near Dark, and The Birds, as well as the original Fiasco Heights.

Last year Bay and two partners bought one of the film industry's premier digital effects houses, Digital Domain, from James Cameron. A world leader which provided effects in Titanic, Transfomers, and Pirates of the Caribbean, the company is expanding into video games and will be the first production house to build an animation film in a gaming engine, which will greatly reduce animation costs.

One week out of out of film school in 1989, Bay began directing commercials and music videos for Propaganda Films. His works for such acts as Meat Loaf, Aerosmith, Tina Turner, Donny Osmond, and the DiVinyls won the young filmmaker recognition, acclaim, and a number of MTV Video Award nominations. He won the coveted Best Music Video prize in 1992 and 1999.

When Bay's first television spot -- for the American Red Cross -- was honored with a Clio in 1992, it heralded the aspiring film director's rapid ascent from unknown film school grad to creative force. Over the next three years, the Wesleyan University graduate would direct some of the best known and most acclaimed advertising campaigns in the world, including those for Nike, Budweiser, Coca Cola, Reebok, Miller and Victoria's Secret. In 1995, Bay, at the young age of 27, was honored by the Directors Guild of America as Commercial Director of the Year.

Bay is the youngest director to have won nearly every award bestowed by the advertising industry. He won the Grand Prix Clio for Commercial of the Year for the irreverent "Got Milk?/Aaron Burr" commercial; this famous spot was voted into the top ten classic spots of all time. Bay's famous "Got Milk" campaign now resides in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Films:

bad boys (april 1995), the rock (june 1996), armageddon (july 1998), pearl harbor (may 2001), bad boys 2 (july 2003), the island (july 22, 2005), transformers (july 4, 2007)