Good movies make it easy to pick nominees for the Oscars and Golden Globes. Bad celebrities make it way too easy to pick nominees for our annual Hall of Shame. And since awards season is in full swing, we decided to include the short list of those bad boys and girls who have a way of taking the shine off of all that red-carpet glamour.

Yes, we are in the business of sending people off to college to earn a degree. It’s because we believe that education has the power to transform individuals into great human beings. And while some people would need to have five Ph.D.s before they finally get their act together, we believe in one small step at a time. So have fun reading our roundup of celebrities and pseudo-celebrities acting badly — and the one college class they could take to make them do a 180-turn in life:

The Men

The nominees for Best Male Trainwreck are:

Charlie Sheen: Go on a bender. Hook up with a stripper or porn star — or both. Wreck a hotel room. Rinse and repeat. The consistent bad behavior of this A-lister should bore us, yet we’re still enthralled. First rehab failed, and now he was recently hospitalized for a hernia (probably from picking up that suitcase full of cocaine). How is it that this guy can drive himself into the ground one night and show up for work the next day, unfazed?

We suggest that Charlie enroll in the anthropology program at UCLA. There, he’ll learn about the origin of human life and how it is not only limited to adult film stars, exotic dancers, and drug dealers. He doesn’t even have to take on the entire human race at once, but thinking outside of his sordid little circle would be an excellent start.

Brett Favre: Even if you’re not a football fan, you know who Brett Favre is. But rather than know him for his illustrious history with the Green Bay Packers, most people now consider him the idiot who sent pictures of “little Brett” to New York Jets sideline reporter Jennifer Sterger. Unlike being involved in a steroid scandal, his touchdown pass record will remain untarnished, but smirks will inevitably follow the mention of his name for the rest of his life.

Had Brett simply taken “Can Texting and Facebook Limit Your Success?” during the off season at the Center for Professional Excellence at York College of Pennsylvania, he would have learned a bit about Internet etiquette and refrained sharing TMI, which only results in our LOLs.

Jesse James: We get it, Jesse James. You’re bad to the bone. You own a bike shop. You’re running out of skin for your tattoos. But did you have to go and cheat on America’s sweetheart, Sandra Bullock? It just adds fuel to the bad boy cliché. What next? Get engaged to a tattoo artist?! Oh wait…

As the saying goes, “Once a cheater, always a cheater.” Unless, of course, Jesse takes a class in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. Maybe what he learns moving forward will help him be a better husband and father.

Steven Slater. Funny, the flight attendants on Jet Blue seem to really enjoy their work. But perhaps we’ve never had the pleasure of being on a flight with one Steven Slater. Shame on you, Steven. Don’t you know that you should never release the emergency slide unless it is a true emergency? Though his antics resemble more of a deleted scene from Airplane! rather than a true-life crackup, the head honchos at Jet Blue weren’t laughing. (Though we still are.)

Had Steven just taken a deep breath and one of the classes in the hospitality degree program at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI, perhaps he’d still be gainfully employed. After all, everyone has a bad day at work from time to time, but there are other ways to solve workplace problems that won’t land you on the evening news and across every news site on the Web.

The Women

The nominees for Best Female Trainwreck are:

Miley Cyrus: When you go to work for the House of Mouse, it seems that there will come a day when you want to emerge from the perfect little bubbles Disney likes to put around its young stars. Miley burst hers in epic fashion by getting caught on video (taken by a “friend”) getting high on a salvia-packed bong. The country learned about salvia and its wild effects, but it’s not exactly the educational experience we prefer.

Miley has already indicated that she’s not interested in stepping out of the limelight to attend college, but we think she’ll have time to squeeze in some substance abuse counselor certification course in between projects, like those offered through the California Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC). Miley’s “been-there, done-that” philosophy with drugs would enable her to be the perfect role model for coaching tomorrow’s child stars on how not to ruin their reputations via YouTube or TMZ.

Lady Gaga: We’re normally pretty keen on her crazy couture, but her eggy ensemble at the 2011 Grammys and the “Meat Dress” that she wore to last year’s MTV Music Awards is where we draw the line. We just can’t keep our “poker face” when we see her on the red carpet anymore. No doubt there is a message she is trying to convey, but when you’re dressed like a bloody cow carcass or ingredients for a giant omelet, it’s kind of hard for your audience to concentrate.

If Lady Gaga ever decides to finish out her degree program at NYU, we think she should take a few classes in costume design. By studying the work of designers over the centuries, hopefully she’ll learn that while clothing can definitely make a statement, it doesn’t have to beat you over the head with its message.

Lindsay Lohan: Where do we begin? Maybe at the end of last year, when the struggling star entered rehab at Betty Ford. Funny, BF used to be such a quiet, anonymous place for celebrities to go dry out. Not any more. These days, Lindsay Lohan would probably need to find a deserted island in order to stay out of trouble. Since no one is too keen on working with her these days — Lindsay was officially dropped from the movie “Inferno” — she’s got some time to kill between courtroom and jail stints.

Lindsay should look into a college or university — preferably one outside of L.A.– that offers a program in international travel and tourism, perhaps with a minor in geography. That way, she’ll be able to find that deserted island and go far, far away — preferably taking her mom and dad along with her.

Paris Hilton: Sure, Paris. It wasn’t your purse in which the cops found the cocaine — you borrowed it from a friend. Get real. Your last name is Hilton. You don’t borrow anything from anyone!

Perhaps Paris should enroll in an online business degree program. She wants us all to think she’s too cool for school, so through an online program, she can log on and chat with classmates and her professors from the comfort of her own penthouse. Perhaps a good shot of business knowledge will bring her to her senses so she can finally make good on the legacy of her family’s brand. (Although she does manage to appear ridiculously good looking in her mugshots.)

Best Collective Trainwreck

We’re keeping it to just one nominee in this category because no one else is more deserving than these lovely ladies and gallant gentlemen:

The Cast of MTV’s “Jersey Shore”: The sad thing is that some of these fake-baked party animals have gone to college already. But we think they could all benefit from getting some formal schooling in marketing. After all, the orange glow will eventually fade from this absurdly popular reality TV show, and the gang will need something to transform their 15 minutes of fame into… 15 days of fame. That’s it. We can’t take much more.

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–The CollegeBound Network