The 2nd Academy Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on April 3, 1930, at an awards banquet in the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, honored the best films released between August 1, 1928, and July 31, 1929.
This was the first Academy Awards ceremony broadcast on radio, by local station KNX, Los Angeles.
The Broadway Melody became the second of seven films to win Best Picture without a writing nomination (preceded by Wings, and followed by Grand Hotel, Cavalcade, Hamlet, The Sound of Music, and Titanic), and the first of three to win Best Picture and nothing else (followed by Grand Hotel and Mutiny on the Bounty).
One year later, at the 3rd Academy Awards (1929–1930), the record was broken by The Love Parade, which garnered six nominations.
The following 9 films received multiple nominations: Beginning with the 2nd Academy Awards (1928–1929), the following changes were made by AMPAS.