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

• 2026Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
• Beau geste — Self - Host, Creator
• 2023Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s) — Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
• Le temps d'une histoire — Presenter
• 2020Pierre & Lescure
• 2010Gainsbourg and His Girls — Narrator (voice)
• 2008A Day at the Museum — Christian
• 2005By the Pricking of My Thumbs — le commissaire Richard
• 2003Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces — Director
• 2002A Day in the Life of French Cinema — Narrator (voice)
• 1999Humanité — Co-Producer
• 1997Didier — Co-Producer
• 1994Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy — Pierre Lescure
• 1994The Monster — Producer
• 1993Fanfan — Producer
• 1991Van Gogh — Producer
• No Goal — Lui-même
• Sex Machine — Creator
• 1982Ladies' Choice — Bruno Estier
• Les Enfants Du Rock — Creator

Appearances as themselves (24)

• 2026Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français — Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
• 2026My Coluche — Self
• 2026The Giaccomo — Self
• 2025Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot — Self
• Jibé et Lucien en coulisses — Self
• Cannes Festival — Self - Guest
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self
• 2022Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès — Self
• 2022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président — Self (archive footage)
• Quelle époque ! — Self - Guest
• 2019La télé des Nuls — Self
• 2018Omar Sy, c'est ta chance — Self
• 2017La télé de Valérie Lemercier — Self
• 2016Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires — Self
• 2010La folie des années 90 — Self
• Lescure : Tôt ou tard — Self - Host
• C à vous — Self - Panelist
• La Guerre des télés — Self
• On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest
• 1999Les Guignols, les 10 premières années — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Télévision (histoires secrètes) — Self (archive footage)
• Stars 90 — Self
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self