* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Dust | Arthur Slade | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Lily's Ghosts | Laura Ruby | HarperCollins Children's Books | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception | Wendelin Van Draanen | Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | The Malted Falcon | Bruce Hale | Harcourt Children's Books | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Dirty Pretty Things | Steve Knight | BBC, Celador Productions, Jones Company | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Monster | Patty Jenkins | MDP Worldwide | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Mystic River | Brian Helgeland | Malpaso Productions | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | Runaway Jury | Matthew Chapman, Rick Cleveland, Brian Koppelman, David Levien | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 2004 | Best Motion Picture | The Cooler | Frank Hannah, Wayne Kramer | Lions Gate Films | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | Resurrection Men | Ian Rankin | Little, Brown | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | Maisie Dobbs | Jacqueline Winspear | Soho Press | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | Out | Natsuo Kirino | Kodansha International | |
| 2004 | Best Novel | The Guards | Ken Bruen | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Find Me Again | Sylvia Maultash Warsh | Dundurn Group | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Cut and Run | Jeff Abbott | NAL-Penguin | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Southland | Nina Revoyr | Akashic Books | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | The Last Witness | Joel Goldman | Pinnacle | |
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Wisdom of the Bones | Christopher Hyde | NAL-Penguin | |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | The Maids | G. Miki Hayden | Berkley Prime Crime | Anthology: Blood on Their Hands |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Aces and Eights | David Edgerley Gates | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December 2003 |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Bet on Red | Jeff Abbott | NAL-Penguin | Anthology: High Stakes |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Black Heart & Cabin Girl | Shelley Costa | Berkley Prime Crime | Anthology: Blood on Their Hands |
| 2004 | Best Short Story | Cowboy Grace | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Golden Gryphon | Anthology: The Silver Gryphon |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Acceleration | Graham McNamee | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Death and the Arrow | Chris Priestly | Knopf Books for Young Readers | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Feast of Fools | Bridget Crowley | McElderry - Simon & Schuster | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | The Last Treasure | Janet Anderson | Dutton Children's Group | |
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Uncovering Sadie's Secrets | Libby Sternberg | Bancroft Press | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Song of the Bones | M.K. Preston | Intrigue Press | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | A Bloodhound to Die For | Virginia Lanier | HarperCollins | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Ricochet | Nancy Baker Jacobs | Five Star Publishing | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Samurai's Daughter | Sujata Massey | HarperCollins | |
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Body in the Lighthouse | Katherine Hall Page | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2004 | Special Edgars | Home Box Office | HBO | Comment: Home Box Office, in recognition of the creation and production of their ground-breaking crime | |
| 2004 | The Grand Master | Joseph Wambaugh | |||
| 2004 | The Raven Award | Ray and Pat Browne Library for Popular Culture Studies, Bowling Green University | In recognition of its long-standing work in collecting and preserving detective fiction | ||
| 2004 | The Raven Award | Vanity Fair Magazine | In recognition of their coverage of True Crime | ||
| 2004 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | The Grass is Always Greener | Sandy Balzo | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March 2003 |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction | Mike Ashley | Carroll & Graf | |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Art of Noir | Eddie Muller | Overlook Press | |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Classic Era of Crime Fiction | Peter Haining | Chicago Review Press | |
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Crime Films | Thomas Leitch | Cambridge University Press | |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Waste | Dawn Denoon, Lisa Marie Petersen | NBC/Universal Television | Series: Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Ho Down | Bill Clark, Nicholas Wootton | ABC Television, Stephen Bocho Productions | Series: NYPD Blue |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Mr. Monk Takes A Vacation | Hy Conrad | OCPI Productions, USA and NBC | Series: Monk |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Target | Ed Burns, David Simon | HBO | Comment: Teleplay by David Simon, Story by David Simon and Ed Burns |
| 2003 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Tuxedo Hill | Rene Balcer | NBC/Universal Television | Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Fire Lover | Joseph Wambaugh | Morrow | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Blood & Ink: International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature | Albert Borowitz | Kent State University Press | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Death at the Priory: Sex, Love and Murder in Victorian England | James Ruddick | Grove/Atlantic | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire | Douglas Century, Rick Cowan | Putnam | |
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | The Count and the Confession | John Taylor | Random House | |
| 2003 | Best First Novel | The Blue Edge of Midnight | Jonathon King | Dutton | |
| 2003 | Best First Novel | Buck Fever | Ben Rehder | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2003 | Best First Novel | High Wire | Kam Majd | Dell | |
| 2003 | Best First Novel | Open and Shut | David Rosenfelt | Mysterious Press | |
| 2003 | Best First Novel | Southern Latitudes | Stephen J. Clark | Penguin Putnam | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | Harriet Spies Again | Helen Ericson | Random House/Delacorte Press | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | O'Dwyer & Grady: Starring in Acting Innocent | Eileen Heyes | Simon & Schuster/Alladin Paperbacks | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | Riding the Flume | Patricia Curtis Pfitsch | Simon & Schuster/BFYR | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eye | Wendelin Van Draanen | Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers | |
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Greedy Granny: Jake Gander, Storyville Detective | George McClements | Hyperion | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Chicago | Bill Condon | Miramax | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Catch Me If You Can | Jeff Nathanson | Dreamworks Pictures | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Gangs of New York | Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan, Steve Zaillian | Miramax | Comment: Story by Jay Cocks |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Insomnia | Hilary Seitz | Warner Bros. | |
| 2003 | Best Motion Picture | Road to Perdition | David Self | Dreamworks Pictures | Comment: based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner |
| 2003 | Best Novel | Winter and Night | S.J. Rozan | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2003 | Best Novel | City of Bones | Michael Connelly | Little, Brown | |
| 2003 | Best Novel | Jolie Blon's Bounce | James Lee Burke | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2003 | Best Novel | No Good Deed | Manda Scott | Bantam | |
| 2003 | Best Novel | Savannah Blues | Mary Kay Andrews | HarperCollins | |
| 2003 | Best Paperback Original | Out of Sight | T.J. MacGregor | Pinnacle | |
| 2003 | Best Paperback Original | Black Jack Point | Jeff Abbott | NAL-Onyx | |
| 2003 | Best Paperback Original | Prison Blues | Anna Salter | Pocket Books | |
| 2003 | Best Paperback Original | The Night Watcher | John Lutz | Pinnacle | |
| 2003 | Best Paperback Original | Trauma | Graham Masterton | NAL-Signet | |
| 2003 | Best Play | Easy | Philip DePoy | Horizon Theatre | |
| 2003 | Best Play | Monster | Derek Nguyen | East-West Players | |
| 2003 | Best Play | The Chronology Protection Case | Jay Kensinger, Paul Levinson, Mark Shanahan | Stage Shadows Productions, Inc. | Comment: based on story by Paul Levinson; adaptation by Mark Shanahan, Paul Levinson and Jay Kensinger |
| 2003 | Best Play | The West End Horror | Anthony Dodge, Marcia Milgrom Dodge | Bay Street Theatre | |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | Mexican Gatsby | Raymond Steiber | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | Angel of Wrath | Joyce Carol Oates | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | Rumpole and the Primrose Path | John Mortimer | The Strand | |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | The Murder Ballads | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March |
| 2003 | Best Short Story | To Live and Die in Midland, Texas | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept-October |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3 | Daniel Parker | Avon | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | Cheating Lessons | Nan Willard Cappo | Atheneum | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | Hit and Run | Mark Delaney | Peachtree | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | Safe House | Jenny Carroll | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | The Night the Penningtons Vanished | Marianna Heusler | Larcom Press | |
| 2003 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Absolute Certainty | Rose Conners | Scribners | |
| 2003 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Bad Witness | Laura Van Wormer | MIRA Books | |
| 2003 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Stone Forest | Karen Harper | MIRA Books | |
| 2003 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Truth Hurts | Nancy Pickard | Simon & Schuster/Atria Books | |
| 2003 | Special Edgars | Dick Wolf | |||
| 2003 | The Ellery Queen Award | Ed Gorman | |||
| 2003 | The Grand Master | Ira Levin | |||
| 2003 | The Raven Award | Mysterious Bookshop | Otto Penzler, Owner | ||
| 2003 | The Raven Award | Book Carnival | Pat & Ed Thomas, Owners |