My suggestions:

1) A new category to add to the best newbie/regular/veteran. There's too many people in the veteran category and every year more people get pushed into that one. Might be good for people who have been registered for like 3+ years. That'd be neat.

2) Del Murder suggested this but post/thread/forum specific awards. That'd be neat.

3) The Oscars have this "For Your Consideration" thing where movie studios will submit some of their best work, actors will submit their best clips, and production teams will submit their stuff. It would be nice for lazy people like me if there was a FYC thread where people who want to be considered for best poet, artist, etc, could post some of their best work. That way, I don't need to go hunting for individual threads in the artist/writer forums. Cause you know, laziness and stuff. Plus, I really liked how eest did the speech for best spammer since you got to see an example of each person's spamming. That was neat.

4) No announcing it vote by vote! NO! That would not be neat.