Surely all the problems related to people voting for themselves are addressed by simply having more people submitting their votes. It evens things out. Integrating the awards into the website a bit better, as well as having them translated, goes a long way in making that happen already, no? It'll be fine.
The whole concept of community awards suggests a popularity contest anyway, it never has been and never will be an accurate representation of universal truth.
Universal truth is left for the X-Worms roping style contests. Subliminal hint, hint, nudge.