Michael Bay was NOT happy Transformers missed out on Oscars glory: 'We got ripped'

TRANSFORMERS director Michael Bay has expressed his annoyance when the franchise’s first film missed out on an Oscar.

The 52-year-old filmmaker, responsible for the billion-dollar franchise, has had quite the career.

A marmite figure among movie fans, Bay’s next instalment is this summer’s Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth film in the series.

Despite the huge financial success of the movies, the director has recently revealed his disappointment at losing the 2008 Best Visual Effects Oscar for the first movie.

Bay revealed his annoyance during a set visit by Empire, while shooting the  latest film.

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ichael Bay was NOT happy Transformers missed out on Oscar glory

Bay lamented: “We got ripped on the Oscar that year because it was a major advancement.

“Every superhero movie has been using all of our stuff that we created.”

The director claimed the first movie pioneered robot photorealism and the intricacies of its light reflection. It was those polar bears [in The Golden Compass that won the Oscar]

“I’m not crying about spilt milk. I’m just saying I felt bad for my team because they broke that ground.”

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Michael Bay has directed five Transformers movies to date

Called Little America, the Bay-produced movie is set in a dystopian future where a US President based on Donald Trump had bankrupt America, while China demands debt repayments.

In this world China owns the US, with many Americans having emigrated to the Asian country to find employment.

The film focuses on a former American Force Recon member who is hired by a Chinese billionaire to find and rescue his daughter in an American ghetto.