The great La Mancha editor José Salcedo dies

Editor par excellence of Pedro Almodóvar, who counted on this veteran professional in all his works from 'Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls of the bunch' to 'Julieta', Salcedo has shared his long career with, among others, Eloy de la Iglesia, Agustín Díaz Yanes, José Luis Borau, Jaime Chávarri, Pedro Olea, Gonzalo Suárez and Luis Buñuel, with whom he began as an assistant on 'Tristana'.

José Salcedo died this Tuesday in Madrid at the age of 68. Considered one of the great editors of our cinema, he was the quintessential collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar, who counted on this veteran professional in all his works from Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls of the bunch until Juliet, Salcedo has also shared his long career with, among others, Eloy de la Iglesia, Agustín Díaz Yanes, José Luis Borau, Jaime Chávarri, Pedro Olea, Gonzalo Suárez, Manuel Gómez Pereira, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Santiago Tabernero, Juan Luis Iborra, Yolanda García Serrano, Josetxo San Mateo, Daniel Calparsoro and Luis Buñuel, with whom he began as an assistant in Tristana.

The Film Academy has deeply mourned the loss of José Salcedo. Recognized with the institution's 2017 Gold Medal, an award whose delivery was scheduled for the coming weeks, and with three Goya Awards for Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, No one will talk about us when we are dead y All about my mother, the prolific editor from La Mancha knew all the secrets hidden in the editing room, a job in which he began as assistant and assistant to two masters: Pablo del Amo and Pedro del Rey.

"The Academy deeply regrets the loss of one of the leading editors of Spanish cinema. José Salcedo was one of the few proper names who, in a profession as decisive for cinema as editing, was always synonymous with excellence, as demonstrated in the more than 150 films that bear his signature," said the president of the Academy, Yvonne Blake, as soon as she heard the news.

"At the Academy we are lovingly preparing what should have been the delivery of his Gold Medal, and which will now become a tribute to him and his family. A day to remember Salcedo, and the now unforgettable mark he has left on Spanish cinema," Blake highlighted.

Cinema, his passion

José Salcedo (Ciudad Real, 1949) edited his first film at the age of twenty-three and, since then, he has appeared in the credits of more than 150 productions, the last one Nno one dies in Ambrosia, title that, like Oro, was pending release.

“I ride from the heart,” this smiling technician who had cinema in his blood and who never stopped reinventing the medium from his work table always said. A lesson in dedication from this veteran professional to whom the Academy is dedicating a cycle this month with some of the films he worked on.