Pierre Lescure

Biography

Pierre Lescure (born July 2, 1945), is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002. Since 2015 he has been the president of the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of François Lescure, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi. He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris. He started his career at the radio station RTL, where he was reporter and news anchor from 1965 to 1968, and moved to RMC from 1968 to 1972. He started working in television as a news anchor of the evening news program of the French public network Antenne 2. In 1981, he created the TV music show Les Enfants du rock. He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election, and has led a mission about Culture and Media in his government. He became president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.

Filmografi

Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien2026 · My Coluche2026 · SelfFear City: A Family-Style Comedy1994 · Pierre LescureException culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français2026 · Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président2022 · Self (archive footage)Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires2016 · SelfJean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot2025 · SelfThe Giaccomo2026 · SelfBy the Pricking of My Thumbs2005 · le commissaire RichardA Day in the Life of French Cinema2002 · Narrator (voice)Gainsbourg and His Girls2010 · Narrator (voice)Omar Sy, c'est ta chance2018 · SelfLa télé des Nuls2019 · SelfA Day at the Museum2008 · ChristianPierre & Lescure2020 · Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès2022 · SelfLadies' Choice1982 · Bruno EstierLes Guignols, les 10 premières années1999 · SelfÉtienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)2023 · Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+La folie des années 902010 · SelfLa télé de Valérie Lemercier2017 · Self