Washington DC, Jan. 30 -- Singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus was honoured with the Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award at the 37th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival film awards gala for her contribution to James Cameron's film 'Avatar: Fire and Ash', as reported by People.

Cyrus received the award for co-writing the song "Dream As One," which plays over the end credits of the third installment of the Avatar franchise. The song was co-written with Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and composer Simon Franglen.

While accepting the honour, Cyrus jokingly remarked onstage that while the Avatar team had worked on the film for 16 years, she had been involved "for like a month" but still attended the same award events, drawing laughter from...