1951 |
Special Edgars |
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W.T. Brannon |
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Comment: for general excellence in fact crime writing |
1951 |
Special Edgars |
The Web |
Franklin Heller |
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Comment: producer/director of MWA's TV show |
1950 |
Best Fact Crime |
Bad Company |
Joseph Henry Jackson |
Harcourt, Brace & World |
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1950 |
Best First Novel |
What A Body |
Alan Green |
Simon & Schuster |
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1950 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Window |
Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich |
RKO |
Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based |
1950 |
Best Play |
Detective Story |
Sidney Kingsley |
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1950 |
Best Radio Drama |
Murder by Experts |
Robert Arthur, David Kogan |
Mutual Broadcasting System |
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1950 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Anthony Boucher |
New York Times |
Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
1950 |
Special Edgars |
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Ellery Queen |
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Comment: for ten years' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
1950 |
Special Edgars |
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
John Dickson Carr |
Harper & Row |
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1949 |
Best First Novel |
The Room Upstairs |
Mildred Davis |
Simon & Schuster |
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1949 |
Best Foreign film |
Quai des Orfevres |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Vog Films |
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1949 |
Best Motion Picture |
Call Northside 777 |
Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds |
Twentieth Century Fox |
Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced |
1949 |
Best Radio Drama |
Inner Sanctum |
John Roeburt |
CBS |
Comment: Himan Brown director/producer |
1949 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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James Sandoe |
Chicago Sun-Times |
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1949 |
Special Edgars |
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Clayton Rawson |
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Comment: for launching Clue magazine |
1949 |
Special Edgars |
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Marie Rodell |
Duell, Sloan & Pearce |
Comment: for her editorship of the Regional Murder series |
1949 |
Special Edgars |
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Arthur A. Stoughton |
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Comment: president of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences and custodian of Poe Cottage in Fordham for 26 years |
1949 |
Special Edgars |
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Peter W. Williams |
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Comment: for creating the Edgar bust |
1948 |
Best Fact Crime |
Twelve Against the Law |
Edward D. Radin |
Duell, Sloan & Pearce |
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1948 |
Best First Novel |
The Fabulous Clipjoint |
Fredric Brown |
Dutton |
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1948 |
Best Motion Picture |
Crossfire |
John Paxton |
RKO |
Comment: based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary, producer/Adrian Scott, associate producer/Edward Dmytryk, director |
1948 |
Best Radio Drama |
Suspense |
William Spier |
CBS |
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1948 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Howard Haycraft |
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine |
Comment: and author of THE ART OF THE MYSTERY STORY |
1947 |
Best First Novel |
The Horizontal Man |
Helen Eustis |
Harper |
|
1947 |
Best Motion Picture |
The Killers |
Anthony Veiller |
Hellinger-Universal |
Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director |
1947 |
Best Radio Drama |
The Adventures of Sam Spade |
Jason James, Bob Tallman |
CBS |
Comment: William Spier producer |
1947 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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William C. Weber |
Saturday Review of Literature |
Comment: alias "Judge Lynch" |
1946 |
Best First Novel |
Watchful at Night |
Julius Fast |
Rinehart & Co. |
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1946 |
Best Motion Picture |
Murder, My Sweet |
John Paxton |
RKO |
Comment: screenplay: Raymond Chandler/author of Farewell, My Lovely on which the movie was based. Directed by Edward Dymtryk |
1946 |
Best Motion Picture |
The House on 92nd St. |
Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr. |
Twentieth Century Fox |
Comment: Honorary Scroll |
1946 |
Best Radio Drama |
Ellery Queen |
Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee |
CBS |
Comment: A tie this year with MR. AND MRS. NORTH, Dannay and Lee were the team using the pseudonym "Ellery Queen" |
1946 |
Best Radio Drama |
Mr. and Mrs. North |
Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge |
NBC |
Comment: A tie this year with ELLERY QUEEN |
1946 |
Outstanding Mystery Criticism |
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Anthony Boucher |
San Francisco Chronicle |
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