1. I've won 16 awards and only ever got one thing on the front page (and that was due to it being Clock Day and them putting all their favourite clock things on the front page).
2. Quality has practically nothing to do with what gets put on the front page. There is little to no quality in Foamy, sim dates and hentai games, but huge amounts of those get put on the front page. This whole site is just a big popularity contest; if you want to get high ratings you just have to cater to the NG users (ie. make stuff with references to pop culture, fill it with porn or preferably hentai + violence). This site is very unfair, but after a while you get used to it. It's not an art site, it's an entertainment site, for the art alternative go to DA.
3. The lightsabre movie is called L incase no one has pointed this out yet (I did not read the entire thread).