* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | The Long Good Friday | Barrie Keeffe | Handmade Films | |
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | 48 Hours | Steven E. de Souza, Larry Gross, Walter Hill, Roger Spottiswoode | Paramount | |
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | Evil Under the Sun | Anthony Shaffer | Universal | |
| 1983 | Best Motion Picture | Still of the Night | Robert Benton | MGM/United Artists | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Billingsgate Shoal | Rick Boyer | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Eight Million Ways to Die | Lawrence Block | Arbor House | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Kahawa | Donald E. Westlake | Viking | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | Split Images | Elmore Leonard | Arbor House | |
| 1983 | Best Novel | The Captain | Seymour Shubin | Stein & Day | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | Triangle | Teri White | Ace/Charter | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | Clandestine | James Ellroy | Avon | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | The Missing and the Dead | Jack Lynch | Fawcett | |
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | Vital Signs | Ralph Burrows, M.D. | Fawcett | |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | There Are No Snakes in Ireland | Frederick Forsyth | Viking | Anthology: No Comebacks |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | A Decent Price for a Painting | James Holding | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '82 |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | All the Heroes Are Dead | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '82 |
| 1983 | Best Short Story | Tall Tommy and the Millionaire | R.R. Rafferty | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '82 |
| 1983 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Rehearsal for Murder | Richard Levinson, William Link | CBS-TV | |
| 1983 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | One Shoe Makes It Murder | Felix Culver | CBS-TV | |
| 1983 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Big Easy | Lee Hutson | ABC | |
| 1983 | Special Edgars | The Case of Dashiell Hammett | Stephen Talbot | PBS | |
| 1983 | The Ellery Queen Award | Emma Lathen | Comment: AKA: Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart | ||
| 1983 | The Grand Master | Margaret Millar | |||
| 1983 | The Raven Award | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | What About Murder? | Jon L. Breen | Scarecrow Press | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler | Frank MacShane | Columbia University Press | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poe | Stephen Peithman | Doubleday | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Whodunit | Stefano Benvenuti, Gianni Rizzoni | Macmillan | |
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | TV Detectives | Richard Meyers | A.S. Barnes & Co. | |
| 1982 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Hill Street Station | Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll | NBC-TV | Series: Hill Street Blues |
| 1982 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Simon Eyes | Philip DeGuere | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1982 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Stain of Guilt | Sam Egan | NBC-TV | Series: Quincy |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Sting Man | Robert W. Greene | Dutton | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | By Reason of Doubt | Ellen Godfrey | Clarke, Irwin & Co. | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | Papa's Game | Gregory Wallance | Rawson Wade | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa | Seymore V. Reit | Summit | |
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | The Minds of Billy Milligan | Daniel Keyes | Random House | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Chiefs | Stuart Woods | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Giant Killer | Vernon Tom Hyman | Marek | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Murder at the Red October | Anthony Olcott | Academy Chicago | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Not A Through Street | Ernest Larsen | Random House | |
| 1982 | Best First Novel | The Black Glove | Geoffrey Miller | Viking | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Taking Terri Mueller | Norma Fox Mazer | Avon | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Detective Mole and the Halloween Mystery | Robert Quackenbush | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Detour to Danger | Eva-Lis Wuorio | Delacorte Press | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Hoops | Walter Dean Myers | Delacorte Press | |
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Village of the Vampire Cat | Lensey Namioka | Delacorte Press | |
| 1982 | Best Motion Picture | Cutter's Way | Jeffrey Alan Fiskin | United Artists | |
| 1982 | Best Motion Picture | Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | Warner Bros. | |
| 1982 | Best Motion Picture | Prince of the City | Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet | Warner Bros. | |
| 1982 | Best Motion Picture | The Eye of the Needle | Stanley Mann | United Artists | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Peregrine | William Bayer | Congdon & Lattes | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Bogmail | Patrick McGinley | Ticknor & Fields | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Death in a Cold Climate | Robert Barnard | Scribners | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | Dupe | Liza Cody | Scribners | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | The Amateur | Robert Littell | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1982 | Best Novel | The Other Side of Silence | Ted Allbeury | Scribners | |
| 1982 | Best Paperback Original | The Old Dick | L.A. Morse | Avon | |
| 1982 | Best Paperback Original | Dead Heat | Ray Obstfeld | Charter | |
| 1982 | Best Paperback Original | Deadline | John Dunning | Fawcett | |
| 1982 | Best Paperback Original | Pin | Andrew Neiderman | Pocket Books | |
| 1982 | Best Paperback Original | The Unforgiven | Patricia J. MacDonald | Dell | |
| 1982 | Best Play | A Talent for Murder | Jerome Chodorov, Norman Panama | ||
| 1982 | Best Short Story | The Absence of Emily | Jack Ritchie | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | A Token of Appreciation | Donald Olson | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | Mousie | Robert Twohy | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | Seeds of Murder | Nan Hamilton | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '81 |
| 1982 | Best Short Story | The Miracle Day | Ernest Savage | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '81 |
| 1982 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Lilljoy | Sam H. Rolfe | CBS-TV | |
| 1982 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | A Small Killing | Burt Prelutsky | CBS-TV | |
| 1982 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Mickey Spillane's Margin for Murder | Calvin Clements Jr. | CBS-TV | |
| 1982 | Special Edgars | The Young Detective's Handbook | William Vivian Butler | HBO | Comment: production of the William Gillette play |
| 1982 | The Grand Master | Julian Symons | |||
| 1981 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers | John Reilly | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1981 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie | Robert Barnard | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1981 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940 | Leroy Lad Panek | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1981 | Best Episode in a TV Series | China Doll | Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson | CBS-TV | Series: Magnum P.I. |
| 1981 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Matter of Principle | Steven Greenberg, Aubrey Solomon | NBC-TV | Series: Quincy |
| 1981 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe | Stephen J. Cannell | ABC | Series: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe |
| 1981 | Best Fact Crime | A True Deliverance | Fred Harwell | Knopf | |
| 1981 | Best Fact Crime | Assassination of Embassy Row | John Dinges, Saul Landeau | Pantheon | |
| 1981 | Best Fact Crime | The Trial of Policeman Thomas Shea | Thomas Hawser | Viking | |
| 1981 | Best First Novel | The Watcher | K. Nolte Smith | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1981 | Best First Novel | Double Negative | David Carkeet | Dial | |
| 1981 | Best First Novel | The Other Ann Fletcher | Susanne Jaffe | NAL | |
| 1981 | Best First Novel | The Rembrandt Panel | Oliver Banks | Little, Brown | |
| 1981 | Best First Novel | Winds of the Old Days | Betsy Aswald | Dial | |
| 1981 | Best Juvenile | The Seance | Joan Lowery Nixon | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1981 | Best Juvenile | More Minden Curses | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1981 | Best Juvenile | The Doggone Mystery | Mary Blount Christian | Albert Whitman | |
| 1981 | Best Juvenile | We Dare Not Go A-Hunting | Charlotte MacLeod | Atheneum | |
| 1981 | Best Juvenile | When No One Was Looking | Rosemary Wells | Dial | |
| 1981 | Best Motion Picture | The Black Marble | Joseph Wambaugh | AVCO-Embassy | |
| 1981 | Best Motion Picture | Hopscotch | Bryan Forbes, Brian Garfield | AVCO-Embassy | |
| 1981 | Best Motion Picture | The First Deadly Sin | Mann Rubin | Filmways Productions | |
| 1981 | Best Motion Picture | The Man with Bogart's Face | Andrew Fenady | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Whip Hand | Dick Francis | Harper & Row | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Death Drop | B.M. Gill | Scribners | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Death of a Literary Widow | Robert Barnard | Scribners | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | Man on Fire | A.J. Quinnell | Wm. Morrow |