* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Best Motion Picture | Something Wild | E. Max Frye | Orion | |
| 1987 | Best Motion Picture | Defense of the Realm | Martin Stellman | Hemdale Releasing | |
| 1987 | Best Motion Picture | F/X | Gregory Fleeman, Robert T. Megginson | Orion | |
| 1987 | Best Motion Picture | Manhunter | Michael Mann | De Laurentiis Ent. | |
| 1987 | Best Motion Picture | The Great Mouse Detective | Ron Clements, Vance Gerry, Steve Hulett, Burny Mattison, Dave Michener, Bruce M. Morris, John Musker, Matthew O'Callaghan, Melvin Shaw, Pete Young | Disney | |
| 1987 | Best Motion Picture | The Name of the Rose | Andrew Birkin, Gerard Brach, Howard Franklin, Alain Godard | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1987 | Best Novel | A Dark-Adapted Eye | Barbara Vine | Bantam | |
| 1987 | Best Novel | A Taste Of Death | P.D. James | Knopf | |
| 1987 | Best Novel | Come Morning | Joe Gores | Mysterious Press | |
| 1987 | Best Novel | The Blind Run | Brian Freemantle | Bantam | |
| 1987 | Best Novel | The Straight Man | Roger L. Simon | Villard | |
| 1987 | Best Paperback Original | The Junkyard Dog | Robert Campbell | Signet | |
| 1987 | Best Paperback Original | Hazzard | R.D. Brown | Bantam | |
| 1987 | Best Paperback Original | Ronin | Nick Christian | Tor | |
| 1987 | Best Paperback Original | Shattered Moon | Kate Green | Dell | |
| 1987 | Best Paperback Original | The Cat Who Saw Red | Lilian Jackson Braun | Jove Books | |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Rain in Pinton County | Robert Sampson | New Black Mask | Volume: May '86 |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Body Count | Wayne D. Dundee | Mysterious Press | Anthology: Mean Streets |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Christmas Cop | Thomas Adcock | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '86 |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Driven | Brendan DuBois | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '86 |
| 1987 | Best Short Story | The Puddle Diver | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '86 |
| 1987 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | When the Bough Breaks | Phil Penningroth | NBC-TV | |
| 1987 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | One Police Plaza | Paul King | CBS-TV | |
| 1987 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star | Anne C. Collins | NBC-TV | |
| 1987 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Deliberate Stranger | Hesper Anderson | NBC-TV | |
| 1987 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Sword fo Gideon | Chris Bryant | HBO | |
| 1987 | The Ellery Queen Award | Eleanor Sullivan | |||
| 1987 | The Grand Master | Michael Gilbert | |||
| 1987 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Father to the Man | Mary Kittredge | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '86 |
| 1986 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John le Carre | Peter Lewis | Ungar | |
| 1986 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Agatha Christie | Janet Morgan | Knopf | |
| 1986 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Private Eyes: 101 Knights, A Survey of American Fiction | Robert A. Baker, Michael T. Nietzel | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1986 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction | David Geherin | Ungar | |
| 1986 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion | Stephan P. Clarke | Mysterious Press | |
| 1986 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Amazing Falsworth | Mick Garris | NBC-TV | Series: Amazing Stories |
| 1986 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice | Debra Frank, Carl Sautter | ABC | Series: Moonlighting |
| 1986 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Wake Me When I?m Dead | Buck Henry | NBC-TV | Series: Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | Savage Grace | Stephen M.L. Aronson, Natalie Robins | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal | Jonathan Coleman | Atheneum | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album | Shana Alexander | Doubleday | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper | Gordon Burn | Viking | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann | Ludovic Kennedy | Viking | |
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady | Brian Kates | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1986 | Best First Novel | When the Bough Breaks | Jonathan Kellerman | Atheneum | |
| 1986 | Best First Novel | Sleeping Dog | Dick Lochte | Arbor House | |
| 1986 | Best First Novel | The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man | Daniel Stashower | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1986 | Best First Novel | The Glory Hole Murders | Tony Fennelly | Carroll & Graf | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | The Sandman's Eyes | Patricia Windsor | Delacorte Press | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | Locked in Time | Lois Duncan | Little, Brown | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | On the Edge | Gillian Cross | Holiday House | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | Playing Murder | Sandra Scoppettone | Harper & Row | |
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | Screaming High | David Line | Little, Brown | |
| 1986 | Best Motion Picture | Witness | William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace | Paramount | |
| 1986 | Best Motion Picture | Blood Simple | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Circle Films | |
| 1986 | Best Motion Picture | Fletch | Andrew Bergman | Universal | |
| 1986 | Best Motion Picture | Jagged Edge | Joe Eszterhas | Columbia | |
| 1986 | Best Motion Picture | The Hit | Peter Prince | Island Pictures | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | The Suspect | L.R. Wright | Viking | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | A Shock to the System | Simon Brett | Scribners | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | An Unkindness of Ravens | Ruth Rendell | Pantheon | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | City of Glass: The New York Trilogy, Part 1 | Paul Auster | Sun & Moon Press | |
| 1986 | Best Novel | The Tree of Hands | Ruth Rendell | Pantheon | |
| 1986 | Best Paperback Original | Pigs Get Fat | Warren Murphy | NAL | |
| 1986 | Best Paperback Original | Black Gravity | Conall Ryan | Ballantine | |
| 1986 | Best Paperback Original | Blue Heron | Philip Ross | Tor | |
| 1986 | Best Paperback Original | Broken Idols | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
| 1986 | Best Paperback Original | Poverty Bay | Earl W. Emerson | Avon | |
| 1986 | Best Play | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Rupert Holmes | Comment: New York Shakespeare Festival | |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | Ride the Lightning | John Lutz | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | There Goes Ravelaar | Janwillem Van de Wetering | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | Trouble in Paradise | Arthur Lyons | New Black Mask | Volume: January '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | What's in a Name? | Robert Barnard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '85 |
| 1986 | Best Short Story | Yellow One-Eyed Cat | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '85 |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Guilty Conscience | Richard Levinson, William Link | CBS-TV | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Deadly Messages | William Bleich | ABC | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Doubletake | John Gay | CBS-TV | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Love on the Run | Sue Grafton, Steve Humphrey | NBC-TV | |
| 1986 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Perry Mason Returns | Dean Hargrove | NBC-TV | |
| 1986 | Special Edgars | Detective and Mystery Fiction: An International Bibliography of Secondary Sources | Walter Albert | Brownstone Books | |
| 1986 | The Grand Master | Ed McBain | |||
| 1986 | The Raven Award | Suzi Oppenheimer | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1986 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Final Rites | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '85 |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction | Jon L. Breen | Scarecrow Press | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Inward Journey: Ross MacDonald | Ralph B. Sipper | Cordelia Editions | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Max Allan Collins, James L. Traylor | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Ross Macdonald | Matthew J. Bruccoli | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The James Bond Bedside Companion | Raymond Benson | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1985 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Deadly Lady | Peter S. Fischer | CBS-TV | Series: Murder, She Wrote |
| 1985 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Miami Vice | Anthony Yerkovich | NBC-TV | Series: Miami Vice |
| 1985 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Seven Dead Eyes | Joe Gores | CBS-TV | Series: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings | Mike Weiss | Addison-Wesley | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Earth to Earth | John Cornwell | Ecco Press | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs | Jim Atkinson, John Bloom | Texas Monthly Press | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Murder at the Met | David Black | Dial | |
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | The Molineux Affair | Jane Pejsa | Kenwood Publishing | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Strike Three, You're Dead | R.D. Rosen | Walker | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | A Creative Kind of Killer | Jack Early | Franklin Watts | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Foul Shot | Doug Hornig | Scribners | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Someone Else's Grave | Alison Smith | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1985 | Best First Novel | Sweet, Savage Death | Orania Papazoglou | Doubleday |