This is News-Plus Special English. I’m Mark Griffiths in Beijing.
The motion picture academy is honoring employees of film laboratories with an honorary Oscar.
The move by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the United States comes at a time when the digital medium is overtaking film.
It marks the first time the organization is collectively recognizing a group of individuals with an Academy Award of Merit.
The motion picture academy has said that this year's other Scientific and Technical Awards recipients will include visual effects supervisor and director of photography Peter W. Anderson and distribution executive Charles "Tad" Marburg.
The academy will honor 19 scientific and technical achievements in total at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards on the 15th of February.
China's box office sales last year neared 22 billion yuan, or less than 4 billion U.S. dollars.
Domestic films raked in about 13 billion yuan, registering a year-on-year increase of 54 percent and accounting for almost 60 percent of mainland box office revenues in 2012.
A total of about 600 Chinese films were produced last year, while more than 700 films were made in 2012.
China's box office sales in 2012 exceeded 17 billion yuan, with domestic movies contributing almost half of the total.
A total of 45 Chinese movies were sold to the overseas market last year, and their box office sales topped 1 billion yuan
And finally, talk about mind over matter, a quirky new study suggests that patients' expectations can make a big difference in how they feel after treatment for a migraine.
Researchers in Boston in the United States, recruited 66 migraine patients in an attempt to quantify how much of their pain relief came from medication, and how much was due to what's called the placebo effect, the healing power of positive belief.
After studying more than 450 headaches, they found that it's important for doctors to carefully choose what they tell patients about a powerful medicine. The message could help enhance its benefits, or blunt them.
Harvard professor Ted Kaptchuk who led the new study with a team at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital says that every word the doctor say counts, not only every gram of the medication.
Doctors say, for now, it shows "the power of positive thinking may be helpful in taking care of your migraine.
