Amy Winehouse won a songwriting honour at the 2008 Ivor Novello Awards on Thursday.

The British singer took the award for her track Love Is A Losing Game, but lost out in the Best-Selling Song category to Beyonce Knowles and Shakira’s Beautiful Liar.

Winehouse was at the London ceremony, but the prize was collected by her father Mitch.

Steven Spielberg has been given France’s highest honour for his work documenting the Holocaust.

The moviemaker was made an officer in the French Legion of Honor by President Nicolas Sarkozy during a ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.

Spielberg made the trip to the French capital from the Cannes Film Festival, where the director screened the world premiere of his new blockbuster Indiana Jones + The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull on Sunday.

Actress Gina Gershon has sparked speculation she is dating actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan after the pair was spotted sharing an intimate evening together.

The couple - who both starred in the 2007 film P.S. I Love You - were seen canoodling at New York City lounge Libation on Saturday, where they were allegedly overheard saying they were headed to another party.

The Pet Shop Boys have denied they want to work with Amy Winehouse to record a theme song for the upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace - insisting they never made the comments.

The band were reported to have told The Sun newspaper on Tuesday they were desperate to clinch a deal with movie bosses to record the title track for the superspy’s latest outing, allegedly stating they have material which would perfectly suit the Back To Black star’s vocal talents.

Actress Jennifr Grey was far from happy when she learned Patrick Swayze would be her love interest in cult movie Dirty Dancing because she hated working with the actor on a previous film.

Grey let it be known to producers that she had not enjoyed making Red Dawn with the movie hunk - and feared she and Swayze would not have the chemistry needed for the 1987 film.

Beloved US TV comedy stars Rosie O’Donnll and Fran Drescher are developing a new sitcom about two women coping with mid-life crises.

The two pals hope to star in The New Thirty.

Drescher, who struck TV gold in The Nanny, said: “We play old high school friends who live in the same building in Manhattan, but we’re living very different lives.”

Actress-turned-singer Scarlett Johansson’s debut album has received a series of scathing reviews from music critics, who have branded the star’s recordings “fussy and forgettable”.

The Lost In Translation star released her LP Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits covers, this week.

But several reviews of the 40-minute-long disc have been lukewarm, with commentators reserving their harshest criticism for Johansson’s vocal abilities.