Biography of Michael Bay

Michael Bay Michael Bay Michael Bay can be attributed to the number of noticeable directors of Hollywood - and not only because his growth is almost a meter of ninety, but also in terms of his influence in American film business; Despite the fact that in the collection of his awards there are no Oscars, but his work was repeatedly recalled by the organizers of the Golden Raspberry Award, Bay can rightfully be called one of the most successful Hollywood directors of our time.

Michael Benjamin Bay was born in Los Angeles on February 17. The craving for the cinema was found in the boy early enough - since adolescence, Michael practically did not part with a home film; Bay received professional knowledge at the College of Arts in Pasaden, as well as in Lucasfilm, where he worked for a while. Starting with the production of musical clips and commercials, Bae did not only manage to withstand serious competition - he became one of the best in his business; He was the author of music videos of such stars as Tina Turner and Aerosmith, and his work in advertising, including for companies such as Coca-Cola and Nike, was awarded the Award of the Guild of American directors in the year.

With producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who invited Michael to the painting "Bad Guys"! Having decided to invite a promising director to his “Bad Guys” project, Bruckheimer clearly did not lose - with a fairly modest budget of less than ten million dollars, this dynamic, filled with humor and successful game Will Smith and Martin Lawrence at that time, which had not yet become megakinozes, but confidently gait gathered for almost one and a half hundreds Millions of dollars at the box office.

Perhaps it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was the “bad guys” by Bay that became a powerful springboard in his career as Smith his next paintings “Independence Day”, “People in Black” and “The Enemy of the State” firmly erected him to the rank of Hollywood superstars, so Lawrence whose films about the adventures of “Big Mom” will collect more than three hundred million at the prosecution after a few years.

Naturally, after such a success in Bay's ability to make a successful and profitable film, no one, including Jerry Brookhaimer, doubted, and the director proved a high level of skill with his next work. On the set of the “rocks” under his leadership, instead of largely, who only started their big careers of Smith and Lawrence were quite formed, venerable actors: Sean Connery, repeated nominee for the Oscar Ed Harris, and who received the cherished figurine for “leaving Las Vegas” Nicholas Cage was far from the last figure in Hollywood.

Bay did not stew at all in the presence of such stars - the result of work on this full action of an action movie, the budget of which has already exceeded seventy million dollars, became more than three hundred million dollars of cash fee at the world rental and even the Oscar nomination for the best sound. The “Armageddon” blockbuster followed by the “rock” was to become even larger work.

We can safely assume that this tape about the team of daredevils who went into space to save humanity coped with the task, and four “indefinite” Oscar nominations and more than half a billion dollars of cash fee at the world box office are vivid proof of this. Of course, we can recall that the picture went to several nominations for the Golden Raspberry by the way, one of them was intended directly to Bay ...

The cooperation of the Bruckheimer producer with Bay continued in the next work of the director-Pearl Harbor. The story of the rivalry of two American soldiers for the girl’s love, which unfolds against the background of the tragic events for the US bombardment of the American fleet, which served as a push to the Second World War, caused ambiguous reviews about the picture in America, but the audience liked the film, which is eloquently evidenced Fifty million dollars.

The continuation of the adventures of the heroes of Smith and Lawrence saw the audience in the year - the budget of the painting “Bad Guys 2” was incomparably larger than the first part due to the enlarged fees of the main roles. Perhaps the picture “island”, the main roles in which Yuen McGregor and Scarlett Johansson played, can be evaluated as Bay's relative failure - film critics appreciated his work quite highly, but in the American rental the film failed with a bang, managing to justify more than one hundred million dollars incorporated into its production only thanks to the world rental.

It is worth noting that this was Bay's first film, where Jerry Brookhaimer did not act as a producer of the picture - their cooperation ended today in the painting “Bad Guys 2”, but by that time, Bay, who began to try himself as a producer in work on Armageddon, accumulated decent experience of producing production. For Bay, another important stage in his career began, which can be conditionally called in one word - “transformers”.For the director, whose paintings are filled with a huge number of special effects, the story of militant foreign -plane robots was very useful - as they say, "there is where to walk around." And Bay was walking.

This time, most of the one and a half hundred millions spent on the creation of “transformers” did not go to the fees of the stars, the young Shaia Labaf and Megan Fox at that time were not so “stellar”, but on the creation of an impressive picture, which “forced” the audience to spend more than seven million dollars at that time. To create a continuation, the painting “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the leaders of the film studio did not spare two hundred million dollars - and were more than rewarded with more than; The cash fees of the picture exceeded the funds spent on the shooting by four times.

For this work, Bay received the “finally” “Golden Raspberry” - and the devoted army of fans, looking forward to the release of the third part of the film. The film “Transformers 3: The Dark Side of the Moon”, published in the summer of the year, managed to collect more than four hundred million dollars at the box office. As a producer, Bay works not only in his films, and very successfully - among the paintings produced by him together with Braudli Fuller and Andrew by the form of Platinum Dunes, focused on the production of films with a rather modest budget by Hollywood standards, you can mention, for example, “Texas carpencies of a fan -rope”, “Friday,“ Friday, E ” And the “Nightmare on the Street of Vyzov” - these films collected about a hundred million dollars each in the box office.

Bay with partners bought James Cameron from a special effect production company Digital Domain.