
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.

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

Objectif Nul

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès

Pierre et Lescure

La Guerre des télés

La Cité de la peur

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Mon petit doigt m'a dit...

Stars 90

C à vous

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

Le Quart d'heure américain

Nulle part ailleurs

On n'est pas couché

Quelle époque !

Musée haut, musée bas

Gainsbourg, l'homme qui aimait les femmes

Les Guignols, les 10 premières années

Vivement dimanche

La télé des Nuls

Beau geste

Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires

La télé de Valérie Lemercier

La folie des années 90

Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français

Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot

Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien

Lescure : Tôt ou tard

Cannes Festival

Jibé et Lucien en coulisses