LOS ANGELES, CA  [Wednesday Sep.21.2005]  /RedBoxCode.com/ -- The College version of the MTV awards announced the nominees for the second-annual "mtvU Woodie Awards." Get over to www.mtvU.com and vote for the most downloaded award in the battle of bands that is the Streaming Woodie.

Full nominees are:

Woodie of the Year - (Artist of the Year)

Nominees:
Fallout Boy (Island Records)
My Chemical Romance (Reprise Records)
Common (Geffen Records)
The Arcade Fire (Merge Records)
Gorillaz (Virgin Records)

The Breaking Woodie - (Best Emerging Artist)

Nominees:
Matisyahu (Or Music/ Epic Records)
The Bravery (Island Def Jam Records)
Paul Wall (Asylum Records/ Atlantic Records)
Motion City Soundtrack (Epitaph Records)
The Decemberists (Kill Rock Stars Records)

Left Field Woodie - (Most Original Artist)

Nominees:
Saul Williams (Fader Label Records)
M.I.A. (Xl/Beggars US / Interscope Records)
Matisyahu (Or Music/ Epic Records)
The Arcade Fire (Merge Records)
MeWithoutYou (Tooth & Nail Records)

Best Video Woodie - Live Action - (Best Live Action Video)

Nominees:
Death Cab for Cutie - "Title & Registration" (Atlantic/Barsuk Records)
My Chemical Romance - "Helena" (Reprise Records)
Nas & Olu Dara - "Bridging the Gap" (Columbia Records)
Nine Inch Nails - "Only" (Interscope Records)
Jack Johnson - "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" (Universal/ Brushfire Records)

Best Video Woodie - Animated - (Best Animated Video)

Nominees:
Aberfeldy - "Love Is An Arrow" (Rough Trade Records)
Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc." (Virgin Records)
Aesop Rock - "Fast Cars" (Definitive Jux Records)
Rilo Kiley - "It's a Hit" (Brute/Beaute/Warner Brothers)
The Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" (Merge Records)


The Good Woodie - (Greatest Social Impact)

Nominees:

David Banner - Heal The Hood Project
Coldplay - Oxfam International
Common - "Know HIV/AIDS" campaign
U2 - DATA: Debt AIDS Trade Africa
Kanye West - Loop Dreams

Road Woodie - (Best Tour)

Nominees:

Muse (Warner Brothers Records)
The Arcade Fire (Merge Records)
Fallout Boy (Island Records)
Jack Johnson (Universal/ Brushfire Records)
Common (Geffen Records)

International Woodie - (Favorite International Artist Award)

Nominees:

Bloc Party (Vice / Atlantic Records)
Muse (Warner Brothers Records)
The Arcade Fire (Merge Records)
Keane (Interscope Records)
A-kon (SRC/ Universal Records)

Alumni Woodie - (a.k.a. The You're Still OK in our Book Award)

Nominees:

Green Day (Reprise Records)
Common (Geffen Records)
Coldplay (Capitol Records)
Beck (Interscope Records)
Mos Def (Geffen Records)

Streaming Woodie - (Most Downloaded)

For four weeks, your favorite artists will go toe-to- toe on mtvU.com. You vote your brains out each week and the four artists left standing in the end will battle it out for the Streaming Woodie.

Nominees:

Week 1

Hawthorne Heights - "Ohio Is For Lovers" (Victory Records)
Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc" (Virgin Records)
Usher - "My Boo" (La Face/ Jive Records)
Modest Mouse - "Ocean Breathes Salty" (Epic Records)
Eisley - "Telescope Eyes" (Reprise Records)

Week 2

Aesop Rock - "Fast Cars" (Definitive Jux Records)
Death Cab for Cutie - "Title & Registration" (Atlantic/Barsuk Records)
MeWithoutYou - "January 1979" (Tooth & Nails Records)
Mike Jones - "Still Tippin" (Asylum Records/ Warner Brothers Records)
Straylight Run - "Existentialism On Prom Night" (Victory Records)

Week 3

Taking Back Sunday - "A Decade Under the Influence" (Victory Records)
The Alchemist featuring Nina Sky - "Hold You Down" (Koch Records)
My Chemical Romance - "I'm Not OK (I Promise)" (Reprise Records)
K'naan - "Soobax" (Track 'N Field/Translator.TV Records)
The Unicorns - "Jellybones" (Alien8 Recording)

Week 4

The Afters - "Beautiful Love" (Columbia Records)
Aberfeldy - "Love Is An Arrow" (Rough Trade Records)
Alicia Keys - "Karma" (J-Records)
Matisyahu - "King Without A Crown" (Or Music/ Epic Records)
The Postal Service - "Against All Odds" (Sub Pop Records)

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