Elliot Hegarty

{{Short description|Film and television director}}

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| occupation = Film director, television director

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Elliot Hegarty is a film and television director working in Britain and the United States.

His film and TV credits include Rivals starring David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Danny Dyer and Katherine Parkinson for Disney+, Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis for Apple TV which won 7 Emmys in 2021,{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/ted-lasso|title=Ted Lasso }}The Emmys. the highly-acclaimed Cheaters for BBC1, two film adaptations of David Walliams' books - The Midnight Gang with Alan Davies and Haydn Gwynne and Grandpa's Great Escape with Tom Courtenay and Jennifer Saunders. He also directed the first block of Season 3 of Trying for Apple TV, Lizzie and Sarah by Julia Davis, Lovesick on Netflix, Star Stories, The Kevin Bishop Show, FM, Moving Wallpaper, Great Night Out and Jack Whitehall's TV series - Bad Education. In the US Elliot has directed over 35 episodes of TV across a broad range of Network comedies such as Black-ish, The Real O'Neals, Mr. Sunshine, The Middle, Suburgatory, Selfie, Trophy Wife, Family Tools and Mixology.

His two feature film credits are The Bad Education Movie and the 2000 film County Kilburn starring Ciarán McMenamin, a film he also wrote.{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/490003/Elliot-Hegarty |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710110201/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/490003/Elliot-Hegarty |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 July 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |title=Elliot Hegarty Movies & TV |accessdate=31 December 2011}}

Elliot also directs commercials. The first three ads he directed were for Club 18–30, for which he won eight awards, including a Silver and two Bronzes at the British Television Advertising awards and a Bronze Lion at Cannes.{{cite web|url=http://uk.adforum.com/award-organization/6650183/showcase/2000/winners?distinction=Bronze%20Lion|title=Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2000 Winners Archive|work=adforum.com|accessdate=10 November 2015}} He was nominated as Best New Director at the British Television Advertising Craft awards in 2000 and selected for the prestigious New Directors' Showcase in Cannes 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcocreate.com/3047800/cannes/25-years-25-directors-saatchi-marks-a-quarter-century-of-its-new-directors-showcase|title=25 Years, 25 Directors: Saatchi Marks A Quarter Century Of Its New Directors Showcase|date=24 June 2015|work=Co.Create|accessdate=10 November 2015}} He has worked with such clients as Guinness, MFI, KFC, Toyota, Npower, Enterprise, Hyundai and the Daily Telegraph.

He has been twice nominated for a BAFTA award - in 2008{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2008/television/comedy-programme |title=Television – Comedy Programme in 2008 |date=10 February 2008 |work=bafta.org |publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts |location=London |accessdate=9 November 2015}} and again in 2018.{{cite web |url=http://www.bafta.org/children/awards/childrens-awards-nominations-2018#COMEDY|title=Children's Awards Winners 2018|date=17 October 2018}} He won Best Comedy at the British Comedy Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishcomedyawards.com/past-winners/2006.aspx|title=The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards|work=britishcomedyawards.com|accessdate=10 November 2015}}