* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | Night Cry | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Atheneum | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | Chameleon the Spy and the Case of the Vanishing Jewels | Diane Redfield Massie | Harper & Row | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | The Ghosts of Now | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | The Island on Bird Street | Uri Orlev | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | The Third Eye | Lois Duncan | Little, Brown | |
| 1985 | Best Motion Picture | A Soldier's Story | Charles Fuller | Columbia | |
| 1985 | Best Motion Picture | Beverly Hills Cop | Daniel Petrie Jr. | Paramount | |
| 1985 | Best Motion Picture | The Little Drummer Girl | Loring Mandel | Warner Bros. | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Briar Patch | Ross Thomas | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Chessplayer | William Pearson | Viking | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | Emily Dickinson is Dead | Jane Langton | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | The Black Seraphim | Michael Gilbert | Harper & Row | |
| 1985 | Best Novel | The Twelfth Juror | B.M. Gill | Scribners | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | Grandmaster | Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy | Pinnacle | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | Black Knight in Red Square | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Charter | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | The Keys to Billy Tillio | Eric Blau | Pinnacle | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | The Seventh Sacrament | Roland Cutler | Dell | |
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | Words Can Kill | Kenn Davis | Fawcett Crest | |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | By Dawn's Early Light | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: August '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | After I'm Gone | Donald E. Westlake | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | Breakfast at Ojai | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | Season Pass | Chet Williamson | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '84 |
| 1985 | Best Short Story | The Reluctant Detective | Michael Lewin | Mysterious Press | Anthology: The Eyes Have It |
| 1985 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Glitter Dome | Stanley Kallis | HBO | |
| 1985 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Celebrity | William Hanley | NBC-TV | |
| 1985 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Fatal Vision | John Gay | NBC-TV | |
| 1985 | Special Edgars | The Silent Shame | Mark Nykaned | NBC-TV | Comment: news report on child-abuse crimes |
| 1985 | The Ellery Queen Award | Joan Kahn | |||
| 1985 | The Grand Master | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | |||
| 1985 | The Raven Award | Eudora Welty | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1985 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Poor Dumb Mouths | Bill Crenshaw | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '84 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | The New Girlfriend | Ruth Rendell | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Big Boy, Little Boy | Simon Brett | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Graffiti | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Puerto Rican Blues | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: April '83 |
| 1984 | Best Short Story | The Anderson Boy | Joseph Hansen | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '83 |
| 1984 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Mickey Spillane's Murder Me, Murder You | Bill Stratton | CBS-TV | |
| 1984 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Jane Doe | Walter Halsey Davis, Cynthia Mandelberg | CBS-TV | |
| 1984 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Murder in Coweta County | Dennis Nemec | CBS-TV | |
| 1984 | Special Edgars | A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle | John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green | Oxford University Press | |
| 1984 | The Grand Master | John le Carre | |||
| 1984 | The Raven Award | Sylvia Porter | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1984 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Locked Doors | Lilly Carlson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '83 |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock | Donald Spoto | Little, Brown | |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dashiell Hammett | Diane Johnson | Random House | |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery of Georges Simenon | Fenton Bresler | Beaufort | |
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Poetics of Murder | Glen W. Most, William W. Stowe | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1984 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Pencil | Jo Eisinger | HBO | Series: Philip Marlowe |
| 1984 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Altered Steele | Jeff Melvoin | NBC-TV | Series: Remington Steele |
| 1984 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Grand Illision | E. Jack Kaplan | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Very Much A Lady | Shana Alexander | Little, Brown | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Deadly Force | Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Judgement Day | B.C. Hall, Bob Lancaster | Seaview Putnam | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Son | Jack Olsen | Atheneum | |
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | The Von Bulow Affair | William Wright | Delacorte Press | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | The Bay Psalm Book Murder | Will Harriss | Walker | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | Caroline Minuscule | Andrew Taylor | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | Dead Man's Thoughts | Carolyn Wheat | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | Red Diamond, Private Eye | Mark Schorr | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1984 | Best First Novel | The Gold Solution | Herbert Resnicow | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Callender Papers | Cynthia Voigt | Atheneum | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | Shadrach's Crossing | Avi | Pantheon | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Dollhouse Murders | Betty Ren Wright | Holiday House | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Griffin Legacy | Jan O'Donnell Klaveness | Macmillan | |
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | The Maze Stone | Eileen Dunlop | Coward-McCann | |
| 1984 | Best Motion Picture | Gorky Park | Dennis Potter | Orion | |
| 1984 | Best Motion Picture | Hammett | Dennis O'Flaherty, Ross Thomas | Warner Bros. | |
| 1984 | Best Motion Picture | Psycho II | Tom Holland | Universal | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | La Brava | Elmore Leonard | Arbor House | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | Texas Station | Christopher Leach | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Little Drummer Girl | John le Carre | Knopf | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1984 | Best Novel | The Papers of Tony Veitch | William McIlvanney | Pantheon | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Mrs. White | Margaret Tracy | Dell | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | False Prophets | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Hunter | Eric Sauter | Avon | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Kill Factor | Richard Harper | Fawcett | |
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Trace | Warren Murphy | Signet | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Cain | Roy Hoopes | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Gun in Cheek | Bill Pronzini | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Modus Operandi | Robin W. Winks | David R. Godine | |
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Police Procedural | George M. Dove | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1983 | Best Episode in a TV Series | In The Steele of the Night | Joel Steiger | NBC-TV | Series: Remington Steele |
| 1983 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Ashes to Ashes, None Too Soon | Bob Shayne | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1983 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Matt Houston | Richard Christian Danus, Ken Trevey | ABC | Series: Matt Houston, Matt Houston |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | The Vatican Connection | Richard Hammer | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Big Bucks | Ernest Tidyman | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Deadly Intentions | William Randolph Stevens | Congdon & Weed | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Indecent Exposure | David McClintock | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Somebody is Lying: The Story of Doctor X. | Myron Farber | Doubleday | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | The Butcher'sBoy | Thomas Perry | Scribners | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | By Frequent Anguish | S.F.X. Dean | Walker | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | In the Heat of the Summer | John Katzenbach | Atheneum | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | Two If By Sea | Ernest Savage | Scribners | |
| 1983 | Best First Novel | Unholy Communion | Richard Hughes | Doubleday | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | The Murder of Hound Dog Bates | Robbie Branscum | Viking | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | Cadbury's Coffin | Glendon Swarthout, Kathryn Swarthout | Doubleday | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | Clone Catcher | Alfred Slote | Lippincott | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | Kept in the Dark | Nina Bawden | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | |
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Cop Catchers | Terrance Dicks | Lodestar-Dutton |