Coral King

On June 4 the Made in NY Awards, ho­n­oured in­di­vid­u­als and or­gan­i­sa­tions who made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to var­i­ous fields in the city's en­ter­tain­ment and dig­i­tal me­dia in­dus­tries. Among them were ac­tor, di­rec­tor and pro­duc­er Robert De Niro; ac­tress­es Meryl Streep and Whoopi Gold­berg; ac­tress and tele­vi­sion host Kel­ly Ri­pa; me­dia com­pa­ny @rad­i­cal.me­dia, which de­vel­ops, pro­duces and dis­trib­utes in­no­v­a­tive con­tent across all forms of me­dia; and New York City-based Kick­starter, the world's largest fund­ing plat­form for cre­ative projects. This year's Made in NY May­or's Award for Life­time Achieve­ment was pre­sent­ed to ac­tors and leg­endary hus­band-and-wife com­e­dy team Jer­ry Stiller and Anne Meara. As part of the cer­e­mo­ny, Raven-Symon&ea­cute; and the cast of the Broad­way mu­si­cal Sis­ter Act per­formed at the event at Gra­cie Man­sion.

The mu­si­cal, which re­ceived five Tony Award nom­i­na­tions, fea­tures an orig­i­nal score by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater and is cur­rent­ly play­ing at the Broad­way The­atre. "Our city is home to some of the most tal­ent­ed peo­ple in the world, who are part of a cre­ative com­mu­ni­ty that con­tin­u­al­ly amaze and im­press us all," said Me­dia & En­ter­tain­ment com­mis­sion­er Kather­ine Oliv­er. "It's an ho­n­our to recog­nise these in­di­vid­u­als and or­gan­i­sa­tions tonight for all of their achieve­ments as we cel­e­brate the sev­enth an­nu­al Made in NY Awards." The Boston Con­sult­ing Group re­cent­ly re­leased a pro-bono study, that analysed the de­vel­op­ment and growth of New York City's me­dia and en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­tries. Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, New York City's film sec­tor is the strongest in its his­to­ry, gen­er­at­ing a di­rect eco­nom­ic im­pact of $7.1 bil­lion in 2011, an in­crease of more than $2 bil­lion dol­lars since 2002. The sec­tor now em­ploys 130,000 peo­ple, an in­crease of 30,000 jobs since 2004.