LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Carole Bayer Sager Official Website/ Golden
Globe Awards) - Carole Bayer Sager received her 10th Golden
Globe nomination for "Grace Is Gone" her songwriting collaboration with Clint Eastwood, it was announced this morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The nomination for "Best Original Song Motion Picture" is for the title track of the Weinstein Company's film release
Grace Is Gone, which stars John Cusack and was released in select markets on December 7th with a wide release in January. The song is performed by Jamie Cullum. Carole has won two Golden
Globe Awards in the past for "
The Prayer" and "Arthur's Theme." There are only three other songwriters who have had more nominations than Carole. The 65th Annual Golden
Globe Awards will be held on January 13, 2008 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and broadcast on the NBC Television Network. "Grace Is Gone" was also recently nominated for the 12th Satellite Awards by the International Press Academy for "Best Song."
Sager's song "Thankful" is featured on the current No 1 Josh Groban holiday album, Noel. "Thankful," which was written by Sager and David Foster and recorded with the London Philharmonic, is the only new song on Groban's CD, which is the largest selling Christmas album ever. Carole tries whenever possible to contain a spiritual message in all of the songs that she writers as it is apparent in the title mentioned above. Sager, who made a name for herself when she wrote her first No 1 hit "A Groovy Kind of Love" while still in high school, has endured a long-standing and thriving career, which includes a gratifying six Academy Award nominations and seven GRAMMY nominations, bringing home one of each award. Carole has had number one records in every decade since her songwriting career began in 1966.
Beyond her songwriting, Sager is continuing her philanthropic involvement and is also a self-proclaimed avid Internet surfer. Due to her vast familiarity with the "online" space, Sager was approached by the Huffington Post to write a weekly blog. Her weekly blog for the Post, in which she has recently raved about some of her favorite Internet sites and most importantly all of the philanthropic opportunities to give to others on line, making everyone an instant philanthropist at any level they can afford. In addition, Sager has launched her own unique website http:/www.carolebayersager.com. Sager and her husband, Bob Daly, underwrote the first two years of the Los Angeles operation of the non-profit organization known as DonorsChoose.org (www.donorschoose.org) which allows teachers to post the projects they need funding for and donors to choose the classroom plan that they want to fund. In 2005, when Sager and Daly began their association, this program existed in five cities. Today, it is has grown to a nationwide network. Sager solicited Morgan Freeman, Bette Midler, Sidney Poitier and Claire Danes to participate as the four animated PSA voices that have helped the organization achieve national growth. Sager also donated her time and talents to write songs for two CD that benefits the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS charity and cofounded with Joyce Bogart, the Neil Bogart Children's Cancer Research Labs in L. A.'s Children's Hospital.
