LONDON (AP) – Pete Doherty smiled and hugged fans outside court after a judge ruled he will not serve jail time for possession of drugs including heroin and crack cocaine.

District Judge Jane McIvor ordered the 27-year-old Babyshambles singer Monday to pay $1,525 in fines and court costs and ordered him not to drive for four months.

“I feel relieved,” Doherty told reporters outside Thames Magistrates’ Court in London.

The singer was arrested in April for possession of less than 2 grams each of heroin, cannabis and cocaine, just three hours after he was sentenced to two years of community service for previous drug offenses. The drugs were found in the vehicle he was in and at his home.

Doherty was arrested again Aug. 7 with a crack pipe and a small amount of crack cocaine, and pleaded guilty Aug. 18 to all five counts.

In September, McIvor told Doherty he wouldn’t serve jail time for the charges if he continued rehabilitation, stayed employed and didn’t commit any other offenses. She also complimented him for his song “The Blinding.” Doherty didn’t break any of the imposed restrictions, McIvor said.

“Hitting your pocket is the way of punishing you in this case,” McIvor said Monday.

Doherty’s lawyer, Sean Curran, said there had been a “breakdown” in Doherty’s rehabilitation. Curran gave no details, but said he hoped Doherty would continue to make an effort to break his drug habit.

In November, Doherty, the on-off boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, was fined $1,485 for assaulting British Broadcasting Corp. reporter Trudi Barber outside the same court.

His drug habit gained international attention after a British tabloid printed pictures last year of Moss allegedly using cocaine at a music studio where Doherty and his band were recording. Moss wasn’t charged.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Roman Polanski was honored with a lifetime achievement award in the country of his childhood at the 19th annual European Film Awards.

“It’s a moving moment for me, of course, to receive this award, and particularly to receive it in Warsaw,” the 73-year-old filmmaker said.

Polanski was given the award for creating what the academy said “were some of the most unforgettable moments in cinema” with films such as “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Chinatown” and “The Pianist.” He won a best director Oscar for 2002’s “The Pianist.”

Though Polanski was forced into the Krakow ghetto under the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II and lost his mother in Auschwitz, he singled out only happy memories of Warsaw. In particular, he recalled his first-ever visit to the capital, when at age 14 he had the lead role in a Soviet play and received an award at a theater festival.

“Tonight arriving here I felt very happy and I realized that every time I come to this city I feel somehow elated,” he said at Saturday’s ceremony. “For some strange reason, only good things happen to me in this city.”

“The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen),” set in the former East Germany in 1984, won the best picture award. The film explores the ruthlessness of East Germany’s all-pervasive secret police, the Stasi, through the story of a party loyalist trying to advance his career by collecting evidence on a playwright.

Ulrich Muehe won the best actor award for his role as the Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler. The best screenwriter award went to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who also directed the movie.

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar won the best director award for “Volver,” and Penelope Cruz won the best actress award for her role in that film.

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) – Academy Award-winning actress Sissy Spacek celebrated strong and independent women during a speech at a conference on women’s health issues.

“I love women – they’re strong, they’re independent,” Spacek said Saturday at the conference, sponsored by the Princeton HealthCare System.

“I think I’ve always been drawn to ordinary women with ordinary strengths and frailties, just stumbling into enlightenment,” the 56-year-old actress was quoted as saying by The Times of Trenton for Sunday’s editions.

Spacek won the best-actress Oscar for her role as country music singer Loretta Lynn in 1980’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” She has been nominated for Oscars for her roles in “Carrie,” “Missing,” “The River,” “Crimes of the Heart” and “In the Bedroom.”

Spacek said a schoolyard friend in Texas told her she would magically turn into a boy if she were to plant a peck on her funny bone.

“All my life I spent trying to prove that girls can do anything boys can do – and then I had a baby,” Spacek said. “I stopped trying to kiss my elbows after that.”

Spacek said she has a happy life living with her husband and two daughters on a Virginia horse farm.

“I always felt that if you want to play real people in movies and be convincing, you’ve got to live real life and have real experiences,” she said. “No matter how far we come, we’re all still just looking for “normal.”‘

LOS ANGELES (AP) – DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. led the pack in the Annie Awards nominations for film, television and home video animation, garnering 17 nominations for “Flushed Away” and “Over the Hedge.”

The Disney-Pixar film “Cars,” a nostalgic nod to the country’s forgotten back roads, tied “Flushed Away” for the most nominations with nine, the International Animated Film Society said Monday.

The society will present the 34th annual awards for achievement in animation Feb. 11 in Glendale.

“Flushed Away,” a co-production with British filmmaker Aardman Animation, received nine nominations, including directing, writing and voice acting for Ian McKellen, who gave a Shakespearean croak to the evil character of Toad.

“Over the Hedge,” the animated version of the popular comic strip, earned eight nominations, including best animated feature and voice acting for Wanda Sykes, who voiced a skunk named Stella.

Nominations for “Cars,” from Pixar Animation Studios and The Walt Disney Co., included best animated feature and best director for John Lasseter, director of the landmark Pixar film “Toy Story.”

Composer Randy Newman received a nomination for the film’s soundtrack.

Other nominees for top animated feature were “Happy Feet,” from Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner Inc.; “Monster House,” from Sony Pictures, a division of Sony Corp.; and “Open Season,” also from Sony Pictures.

The winner of the Annie Awards has gone on to claim the Oscar for animated feature every year since the Academy Award for animation was created.

Nominated for best animated television production were “Charlie and Lola,” “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends,” “King of the Hill,” “The Fairly OddParents” and “Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!”