Nina L. Shaw

Nina L. Shaw is a founding partner of Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano. She specializes in the television, motion picture, and live stage areas. A native New Yorker, Nina was born and raised in Harlem and The Bronx, educated in the New York City public school system and is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Law School. Among her clients are successful and award-winning actors, writers, producers and directors as well as entrepreneurs and entertainment executives. She began her legal career in the Entertainment Department of the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers.

Nina is a Variety Dealmaker Impact honoree and has been named repeatedly to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment Power 100” list. She is a recipient of the WIF Crystal Award, and in 2013 was named Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Essence Magazine awarded Nina with its 2016 Black Women in Hollywood Power Award, and in 2016 she was also profiled in the New York Times: “She’s the Hollywood Power Behind Those Seeking a Voice.” In recognition of Nina’s professional, social and educational activists’ contributions, her alma mater Columbia Law School in 2019 awarded her their prestigious Medal for Excellence Award; later that year she was awarded with the Athena Award at the Athena Film Festival and the NAACP LDF National Equal Justice Award. As a notable voice for minority representation in the entertainment community, Nina’s more recent accomplishments include successfully representing Nikole Hannah-Jones in the adaptation of her New York Times Magazine, Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project as well as the overall and first look deals for her clients Ava DuVernay, John Legend, Lena Waithe, and Gina-Prince Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood. Nina has also successfully negotiated and closed talent deals for her clients Andra Day, Golden Globe winner for The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Lupita Nyong’o for Black Panther – Wakanda Forever, and Misha Green and Jurnee Smollett, the creator and star, respectively, for Lovecraft Country. Most recently, Nina was featured in Harper’s Bazaar August 2020 issue among changemakers who are reshaping the way we think about art, identity, and progress.

Nina has a long-standing commitment to the education of children and in particular is an advocate for the education of girls and women. She is currently Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Independent School Alliance for Minority Affairs and is a board member of the MPTF.