* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Best Motion Picture | Rear Window | John Michael Hayes | Paramount | |
| 1954 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Heat | Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern | Columbia | Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel |
| 1953 | Best Motion Picture | Five Fingers | Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson | Twentieth Century Fox | Comment: Lang is the producer |
| 1952 | Best Motion Picture | Detective Story | Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan | Paramount | Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters |
| 1952 | Best Motion Picture | The Man with a Cloak | John Dickson Carr | MGM | Comment: based on the novel by Carr |
| 1952 | Best Motion Picture | The People Against O'Hara | Eleazar Lipsky | MGM | Comment: based on the novel by Lipsky |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | Mr. 880 | St. Clair McKelway | Twentieth Century Fox | Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | The Asphalt Jungle | Ben Maddow | MGM | |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | Stage Fright | Whitfield Cook | Warner Bros. | Comment: based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Harry Brown | A&T | Comment: based on the novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simnon |
| 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 Motion Picture | Chicago Deadline | Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer | Paramount | |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | Criss Cross | Daniel Fuchs | U-I | Comment: based on the novel by Don Tracy |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | The Scene of the Crime | Charles Schnee | MGM | Comment: based on the story by John Bartlow Martin |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | White Heat | Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts | Warner Bros. | Comment: based on the story by Virginia Kellogg |
| 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 Motion Picture | Rope | Arthur Laurents | Transatlantic | Comment: based on the play by Patrick Hamilton |
| 1949 | Best Motion Picture | Sorry, Wrong Number | Lucille Fletcher | Paramount | Comment: From her play |
| 1949 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Clock | Jonathan Latimer | Paramount | Comment: based on the novel by Kenneth Fearing |
| 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 |
| 1947 | Best Motion Picture | The Killers | Anthony Veiller | Hellinger-Universal | Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director |
| 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 |