Toronto FC's Sebastian Giovinco, the Columbus Crew's Kei Kamara and Sporting Kansas City's Benny Feilhaber are finalists for the MLS Most Valuable Player award.
The league announced the finalists on Tuesday for the Landon Donovan MVP honor, named for the recently retired MLS and U.S. national team star.
In his first year in the league, Giovinco won the league's Golden Boot award with 22 goals and 16 assists.
Kamara also scored 22 goals for Columbus, with all of them coming from open play. Three of Giovinco's goals came on penalty kicks.
Feilhaber had 15 assists for Sporting KC, tied for the second most in the league, along with 10 goals.
The award will be handed out Dec. 2, after the league gives out trophies for the rest of its top honors.
The finalists for the rookie award are San Jose's Fatai Alashe, Orlando's Cyle Larin and Chicago's Matt Polster. Larin's 17 goals set an MLS record for rookies.
Giovinco is also a candidate for the newcomer of the award -- for players with previous professional experience in other leagues -- along with Montreal's Didier Drogba and New York's Mike Grella.
Defender of the year finalists are Montreal's Laurent Ciman, FC Dallas' Matt Hedges and Vancouver's Kendall Waston.
The coach of the year finalists include the winners of each conference -- the New York Red Bulls' Jesse Marsch and FC Dallas' Oscar Pareja, as well as Carl Robinson of the Vancouver Whitecaps, who finished with the third-best overall record.
The finalists for top goalkeeper are D.C. United's Bill Hamid, Vancouver's David Ousted and New York's Luis Robles.