* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles | Douglas G. Greene | Otto Penzler Books | |
| 1996 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael | Robin Whiteman | Mysterious/Warner | |
| 1996 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Life of Graham Greene | Norman Sherry | Viking | Volume: Volume II: 1939-1955 |
| 1996 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Torah! Torah! Torah! | Theresa Rebeck | Steven Bochco Productions | Series: NYPD Blue/ABC |
| 1996 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Humbug | Darin Morgan | Fox Broadcasting | Series: THE X-FILES |
| 1996 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Rumpole and the Family Pride | John Mortimer | PBS | Comment: Mystery!; Series: RUMPOLE |
| 1996 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Eligible Bachelor | Trevor R. Bowen | PBS | Comment: Mystery!; Series: SHERLOCK HOLMES |
| 1996 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Lost Child | Paul Billing | PBS | Series: PRIME SUSPECT/Masterpiece Theater |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Circumstantial Evidence | Pete Earley | Bantam | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Born To Kill | T.J. English | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | By Two and Two | Jim Schutze | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Mindhunter | John Douglas, Mark Olshaker | Scribners | |
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Unfinished Murder | James Neff | Pocket Books | |
| 1996 | Best First Novel | Penance | David Housewright | Foul Play/Countryman Press | Anthology: Foul Play |
| 1996 | Best First Novel | Fixed in His Folly | David J. Walker | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1996 | Best First Novel | Murder in Scorpio | Martha C. Lawrence | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1996 | Best First Novel | The Harry Chronicles | Allan Pedrazas | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1996 | Best First Novel | Tight Shot | Kevin Allman | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | Looking for Jamie Bridger | Nancy Springer | Dial | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | Marvelous Marvin and the Pioneer Ghost | Bonnie Pryor | Morrow | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | Running Out of Time | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | The 13th Floor | Sid Fleischman | Greenwillow | |
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | The Bones in the Cliff | James Stevenson | Greenwillow | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | The Usual Suspects | Christopher McQuarrie | Gramercy Pictures, PolyGRam Bad Hat Harry, Blue Parrot | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | Clinica Esterico, Muddy Lane Entertainment/Tristar | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | Dolores Claiborne | Tony Gilroy | Columbia/Castle Rock | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | Get Shorty | Scott Frank | Jersey Films/MGM | |
| 1996 | Best Motion Picture | To Die For | Buck Henry | Columbia | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | Come to Grief | Dick Francis | Putnam | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Bookman's Wake | John Dunning | Scribners | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Roaring Boy | Edward Marston | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Shadow Man | John Katzenbach | Ballantine | |
| 1996 | Best Novel | The Summons | Peter Lovesey | Mysterious/Warner | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Tarnished Blue | William Heffernan | Onyx | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Charged With Guilt | Gloria White | Dell | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Deal Breaker | Harlan Coben | Dell | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | Hard Frost | R.D. Wingfield | Bantam | |
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | High Desert Malice | Kirk Mitchell | Avon | |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | The Judge's Boy | Jean B Cooper | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | A Plain and Honest Death | Bill Pomidor | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept. '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | Death in a Small Town | Larry Beinhart | New Mystery | Volume: Spring '95 |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | Rule of Law | K.K. Beck | Pocket Books | Anthology: Malice Domestic |
| 1996 | Best Short Story | When Your Breath Freezes | Kathleen Dougherty | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Sept. '95 |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Citizen X | Chris Gerolmo | HBO | |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | A Dark Adapted Eye | Sandy Welch | PBS | Series: Mystery! |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Abby Mann, Myra Mann | HBO | |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Shadow of a Doubt | Brian Dennehy, Bill Phillips | NBC-TV | Comment: pilot, |
| 1996 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Sugar Time | Martyn Burke | HBO | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Prophecy Rock | Rob MacGregor | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Angel's Gate | Gary Crew | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | In the Middle of the Night | Robert Cormier | Delacorte Press | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Spirit Seeker | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Spying on Miss Muller | Eve Bunting | Clarion Books | |
| 1996 | The Ellery Queen Award | Jacques Barzun | |||
| 1996 | The Grand Master | Dick Francis | |||
| 1996 | The Raven Award | Library of America | Comment: for their publication of the collected writings of Raymond Chandler | ||
| 1996 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | The Word for Breaking August Sky | James Sarafin | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '95 |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Encyclopedia Mysteriosa | William L. DeAndrea | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | By a Woman's Hand | Dean James, Jean Swanson | Berkley | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dick Tracey and American Culture | Garyn G. Roberts | McFarland | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Great Women Mystery Writers | Kathleen Gregory Klein | Greenwood Press | |
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Tony Hillerman Companion | Martin Greenberg | HarperCollins | |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Simone Says | Steven Bochco, Walon Green, David Milch | Twentieth Century Fox/ABC-TV | Series: NYPD Blue |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Family Values | Rene Balcer, William N. Fordes | NBC-TV | Series: Law and Order, Law and Order |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Pilot Episode/Episode One | Jacqueline Zambrano | CBS-TV | Series: Under Suspicion |
| 1995 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Erlenmeyer Flask | Chris Carter | Twentieth Century Fox | Series: The X-Files |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | To Protect and Serve | Joe Domanick | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Before He Wakes | Jerry Bledsoe | Dutton | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Breakdown | Eileen McNamara | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | In the Best of Families | Dennis McDougal | Warner Books | |
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Mississippi Mud | Edward Humes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | The Caveman's Valentine | George Dawes Green | Warner Books | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | Big Town | Doug J. Swanson | HarperCollins | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | Mallory's Oracle | Carol O'Connell | Putnam | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | One For the Money | Janet Evanovich | Scribners | |
| 1995 | Best First Novel | Suspicion of Innocence | Barbara Parker | Dutton | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | The Absolutely True Story..How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Caught | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Harvey's Mystifying Racoon Mix Up | Eth Clifford | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Hester Bidgood Investigatrix of Eveil Deeds | E.W. Hildick | Macmillan | |
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Trouble Will Find You | Joan M. Lexau | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | Miramax | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Blink | Dana Stevens | New Line Cinema | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | Speed | Graham Yost | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1995 | Best Motion Picture | The Last Seduction | Steve Barancik | ITC Entertainment | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | The Red Scream | Mary Willis Walker | Doubleday | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | A Long Line of Dead Men | Lawrence Block | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | Lights Out | Peter Abrahams | Mysterious | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | Miami, It's Murder | Edna Buchanan | Hyperion | |
| 1995 | Best Novel | Wednesday's Child | Peter Robinson | Scribners | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Final Appeal | Lisa Scottoline | Harper | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Power of Attorney | Walter Sorrells | Avon | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Sunrise | Chassie West | Harper | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | The Broken-Hearted Detective | Milton Bass | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Viper Quarry | Dean Feldmeyer | Pocket Books | |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Dancing Bear | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | An Eye for a Tooth | Justin Scott | Longmeadow Press | Anthology: Justice in Manhattan |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Gentleman in the Lake | Robert Barnard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Necessary Brother | Brendan DuBois | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '94 |
| 1995 | Best Short Story | The Tennis Court | Brenda Melton Burnham | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '94 |