The alternative awards were just some guy on Twitter.
I think times have moved on since the days when we, as a user base, had time to categorise, nominate and vote on each other. Picking 3 members (or threads or events or ...) to nominate in each of 15 categories adds up to 45 things to think about. It's going to eat a lot of time and we're mostly busy, grown-up people now (compared to 2010, when most of us were still in Uni).
What I would propose is that someone comes up with 6 'awards', and asks everyone to vote for only 1 person (/ thread / event / logo / ...) in each category. That's only 6 questions people have to fill in one answer to! For example, for "funniest member" I would obviously vote "Dblock", and that would be all I would have to write for that category.
By making it super-easy to vote we would hopefully get lots more responses.
Yes, by using such a simple voting system you risk having a lot of ties, but who cares? It's just supposed to be fun, it's not like there's a grand cash prize (unless Mockmaster really steps up his game).
If this gets off the ground I'm happy to put an icon under someone's name like they do on SONM.