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- Production designer Barbara Ling died on July 9, 2026, at age 73 after cancer.
- She earned the Academy Award for Best Production Design for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
- Ling’s design on Antoine Fuqua’s Michael helped the film gross nearly $1 billion worldwide, the top-grossing music biopic.
- She started as a lighting designer on The Pee-Wee Herman Show (1981).
- She is survived by wife Lindsay and sons Clay and Will.
