Pierre Lescure
{{Short description|French journalist and television executive}}
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| name = Pierre Lescure
| image = Pierre Lescure 2012.jpg
| caption = Pierre Lescure in 2012
| birth_date = {{circa|1945}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| occupation = TV presenter
| partner = Catherine Deneuve (1984–1991)
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Pierre Lescure ({{IPA|fr|pjɛʁ lɛskyʁ}}; born {{circa|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.
Early life and education
Pierre Lescure was born around 1945{{cite web | last=Milmo | first=Dan | title=Lescure ousted at Canal Plus | website=The Guardian | date=16 April 2002 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/apr/16/citynews.broadcasting2 | access-date=16 May 2024}} in Paris, France, the son of {{interlanguage link|François Lescure|fr}}, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of {{interlanguage link|Pierre de Lescure|fr}}, founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
Career
Lescure 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.Roche, François. [http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/economie/lescure-au-debut-de-canal-nous-faisions-rire-le-tout-paris_11645.html?p=7 "Lescure : « Au début de Canal +, nous faisions rire le Tout-Paris »"], L'Expansion, December 17th, 1998
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 {{interlanguage link|Les Enfants du rock|fr}}.
He was founder of production company Canal+ Productions (later StudioCanal) and co-founder, with André Rousselet, of the company that started with the subscription TV channel Canal+ in 1984 and grew into Groupe Canal+. His friend {{ill|Alain de Greef|fr}} joined the company in 1986. Lescure was director-general/CEO until his ousting in 2002 after clashing with Jean-Marie Messier, chief executive of Vivendi, which had acquired the company. He proved very popular with media professionals and politicians during his time at Canal+.{{cite web | title=Canal Plus | website=Encyclopedia.com | date=18 May 2018 | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economics-business-and-labor/businesses-and-occupations/canal-plus | access-date=16 May 2024}}
He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election,[http://www.parti-socialiste.fr/communiques/de-nombreuses-personnalites-apportent-leur-soutien-francois-hollande-la-preuve-en-videos "De nombreuses personnalités apportent leur soutien à François Hollande : la preuve en vidéos !"], Socialist Party website, May 1st, 2012. and has led a mission about culture and media in his government.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
He was appointed president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014,[http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/01/14/filippetti-annonce-l-election-de-lescure-a-la-presidence-du-festival-de-cannes_4347727_3246.html Pierre Lescure officiellement à la tête du Festival de Cannes], Le Monde, 14 January 2014 leading the festival from 2015.{{Cite web|last=Tartaglione|first=Nancy|date=2020-05-13|title=Cannes President Pierre Lescure Talks Festival Label & Tie-Up With Venice|url=https://deadline.com/2020/05/cannes-film-festival-venice-collaboration-pierre-lescure-1202932883/|access-date=2020-10-17|website=Deadline|language=en-US}}
Filmography
- 2008 : Musée haut, musée bas, directed by Jean-Michel Ribes
References
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Category:Journalists from Paris
Category:French television executives
Category:Mass media people from Paris
Category:International Emmy Founders Award winners
Category:French male non-fiction writers
Category:Cannes Film Festival people