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Barbara Ling, Oscar-Winning Production Designer on ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ Dies at 73

She won an Academy Award for recreating 1969 Los Angeles in Quentin Tarantino’s film and worked in production design for more than four decades.

Barbara Ling, the production designer who turned back time and won an Oscar for re-creating 1969 Los Angeles for Quentin Tarantino’s acclaimed Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has died.

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For "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" she won the Oscar. Now Barbara Ling has passed away. A colleague commemorates the well-known scene designer.

·Berlin, Germany
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Hollywood has been hit by sad news - Oscar-winning production designer Barbara Ling has died at the age of 73. During a career spanning more than four decades, she contributed to many famous films, but earned her greatest recognition for her work on Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, for which she won an Oscar for Best Production Design.

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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The Hollywood Reporter broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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