Pierre Lescure
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.
Filmography (34 titles)
7.0MovieCarolco, un rêve hollywoodien
2026
8.0MovieMy Coluche
Self · 2026
5.0MovieException culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022) · 2026
MovieJean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
Self · 2025
ShowJibé et Lucien en coulisses
Self · 2024
8.0MovieÉtienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+ · 2023
1.0ShowBeau geste
Self - Host · 2023
6.6ShowIl était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self · 2022
5.0ShowQuelle époque !
Self - Guest · 2022
8.0MovieJean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Self · 2022
ShowCannes Festival
Self - Guest · 2022
7.2MovieLa TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage) · 2022
8.0MoviePierre & Lescure
2020
1.0MovieLa télé des Nuls
Self · 2019
6.0MovieOmar Sy, c'est ta chance
Self · 2018
MovieLa télé de Valérie Lemercier
Self · 2017
MovieEddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Self · 2016
ShowLescure : Tôt ou tard
Self - Host · 2010
MovieLa folie des années 90
Self · 2010
4.1MovieGainsbourg and His Girls
Narrator (voice) · 2010
6.1ShowC à vous
Self - Panelist · 2009
4.5MovieA Day at the Museum
Christian · 2008
8.0ShowLa Guerre des télés
Self · 2007
5.1ShowOn n'est pas couché
Self - Guest · 2006
6.2MovieBy the Pricking of My Thumbs
le commissaire Richard · 2005
7.0MovieA Day in the Life of French Cinema
Narrator (voice) · 2002
5.3MovieLes Guignols, les 10 premières années
Self · 1999
3.6ShowVivement dimanche
Self · 1998
10.0ShowTélévision (histoires secrètes)
Self (archive footage) · 1996
7.5MovieFear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Pierre Lescure · 1994