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Michael Bay Movies

Want to know the best Michael Bay movies?  How about the worst Michael Bay movies?  Curious about Michael Bay box office grosses or which Michael Bay movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Michael Bay movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Michael Bay (1965-) is an American film director and producer.  His IMDb page shows over 25 directing and 50 producing credits since 1990. This page ranks Michael Bay directed movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, video games and documentaries were not included in the rankings.

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Michael Bay Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

Year Movie (Year) Rating S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1996 The Rock (1996)
2007 Transformers (2007)
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
1998 Armageddon (1998)
2001 Pearl Harbor (2001)
1995 Bad Boys (1995)
2003 Bad Boys II (2003)
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
2016 13 Hours (2016)
2013 Pain & Gain (2013)
Director
2022 Ambulance (2022)
2005 The Island (2005)
2019 6 Underground (2019)
Netflix

Michael Bay Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Michael Bay movies by co-stars of his movies.
  • Sort Michael Bay movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Michael Bay movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Michael Bay movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Michael Bay movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Michael Bay movie won.
  • Sort Michael Bay movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
1 The Rock (1996) Nicolas Cage &
Sean Connery
134.10 379.2 947.60 7 68 01 / 00 94.2
2 Transformers (2007) Shia LaBeouf 319.20 580.0 1,289.40 3 66 03 / 00 94.0
3 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) Shia LaBeouf 351.40 553.9 1,769.90 2 51 03 / 00 88.8
4 Armageddon (1998) Bruce Willis &
Ben Affleck
201.60 537.3 1,475.80 2 48 04 / 00 87.9
5 Pearl Harbor (2001) Ben Affleck &
Kate Beckinsale
198.50 439.3 993.90 7 44 04 / 01 86.9
6 Bad Boys (1995) Will Smith &
Martin Lawrence
65.80 189.1 406.30 27 50 00 / 00 86.5
6 Bad Boys II (2003) Will Smith &
Martin Lawrence
138.60 287.3 566.60 11 42 00 / 00 84.7
7 Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) Mark Wahlberg 245.40 375.5 1,689.20 7 41 00 / 00 84.0
8 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Shia LaBeouf 401.10 668.5 1,392.20 2 39 01 / 00 83.7
12 Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) Mark Wahlberg &
Anthony Hopkins
130.20 181.4 843.70 24 33 00 / 00 76.5
10 13 Hours (2016) John Krasinski 52.90 76.4 100.30 66 63 01 / 00 74.4
13 Pain & Gain (2013)
Director
Mark Wahlberg &
Dwayne Johnson
49.90 76.7 132.50 70 55 00 / 00 66.4
11 Ambulance (2022) Jake Gyllenhaal 21.30 23.8 55.70 49 72 00 / 00 66.3
14 The Island (2005) Scarlett Johansson &
Ewan McGregor
35.80 70.0 318.30 78 55 00 / 00 61.5
15 6 Underground (2019)
Netflix
Ryan Reynolds &
NetFlix Movie
0.10 0.1 0.10 317 59 00 / 00 28.1

Michael Bay Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses 

Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) S
Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) S
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) Shia LaBeouf 1,769.90
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) Mark Wahlberg 1,689.20
Armageddon (1998) Bruce Willis &
Ben Affleck
1,475.80
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) Shia LaBeouf 1,392.20
Transformers (2007) Shia LaBeouf 1,289.40
Pearl Harbor (2001) Ben Affleck &
Kate Beckinsale
993.90
The Rock (1996) Nicolas Cage &
Sean Connery
947.60
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) Mark Wahlberg &
Anthony Hopkins
843.70
Bad Boys II (2003) Will Smith &
Martin Lawrence
566.60
Bad Boys (1995) Will Smith &
Martin Lawrence
406.30
The Island (2005) Scarlett Johansson &
Ewan McGregor
318.30
Pain & Gain (2013)
Director
Mark Wahlberg &
Dwayne Johnson
132.50
13 Hours (2016) John Krasinski 100.30
Ambulance (2022) Jake Gyllenhaal 55.70

Possibly Interesting Facts About Michael Bay

1. Michael Benjamin Bay was born in Los Angeles, California in 1965.

2. Michael Bay got his start in the film industry interning with George Lucas when he was fifteen, filing the storyboards for 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.

3. Michael Bay first directing jobs were commercials and music videos.

4. Michael Bay’s The Rock (1996) is his favorite of the films he has directed and Sean Connery is his favorite actor that he’s ever worked with.  Bay and Bruce Willis did not get along while making 1998’s Armageddon.

5. Of all the directors in our database only Steven Spielberg can top Michael Bay’s average of $238.40 million in adjusted domestic gross (minimum 12 movies).

6.  Michael Bay’s movies have grossed $7.46 billion in adjusted worldwide box office grosses or $621 million per movie.

7.  Michael Bay and Leonard Nimoy were cousins-in-laws.

8. Check out Michael Bay’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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  1. Ryan Thompson says:
    October 31, 2022 at 12:12 pm

    Everybody loves dumping on Michael Bay and his movies (myself included) but the numbers don’t lie. Obviously people are repeatedly watching his movies and despite the critical drubbing his movies always get, the average moviegoer enjoys this type of movie.

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