* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | The Switch | Elmore Leonard | Bantam | |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | The Cloud Beneath The Eaves | Barbara Owens | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | Going Backward | David Ely | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | Strangers in the Fog | Bill Pronzini | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | The Closed Door | Thomas Walsh | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '78 |
| 1979 | Best Short Story | This Is Death | Donald E. Westlake | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '78 |
| 1979 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Dashiell Hammett's The DainCurse | Robert Lenski | CBS-TV | |
| 1979 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Perfect Gentleman | Nora Ephron | CBS-TV | |
| 1979 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Someone's Watching Me! | John Carpenter | NBC-TV | |
| 1979 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | When Every Day Was the Fourth of July | Lee Hutson | NBC-TV | |
| 1979 | Special Edgars | Frederic Dannay | Comment: celebrating 50 years since the publication of his first novel | ||
| 1979 | Special Edgars | Mignon C. Eberhart | Comment: celebrating 50 years since the publicaton of his first novel | ||
| 1979 | Special Edgars | Columbo and Ellery Queen TV series | Richard Levinson, William Link | ||
| 1979 | The Grand Master | Aaron Marc Stein | |||
| 1979 | The Raven Award | Alberto Tedeschi | Mondadori | Comment: publisher of the most succesful Italian series of mysteries | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | Closing Time | Lacey Fosburgh | Delacorte Press | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | Justice Crucified | Roberta S. Feuerlicht | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | Six Against the Rock | Clark Howard | Dial | |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | The Voice of Guns | Paul Avery, Vin McLellan | Putnam | |
| 1978 | Best First Novel | A French Finish | Robert Ross | Putnam | |
| 1978 | Best First Novel | Dewey Decimated | Charles A. Goodrum | Crown | |
| 1978 | Best First Novel | The Fan | Bob Randall | Random House | |
| 1978 | Best Juvenile | A Really Weird Summer | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | Atheneum | |
| 1978 | Best Juvenile | Miss Nelson Is Missing! | Harry Allard, James Marshall | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1978 | Best Juvenile | Night Spell | Robert Newman | Atheneum | |
| 1978 | Best Juvenile | Poor Tom's Ghost | Jean Louise Curry | Atheneum | |
| 1978 | Best Motion Picture | The Late Show | Robert Benton | Warner Bros. | |
| 1978 | Best Motion Picture | Black Sunday | Ernest Lehman, Ivan Moffat, Kenneth Ross | Paramount | |
| 1978 | Best Motion Picture | Telefon | Peter Hyams, Stirling Silliphant | MGM | |
| 1978 | Best Novel | Catch Me: Kill Me | William H. Hallahan | Bobbs-Merrill | |
| 1978 | Best Novel | Laidlaw | William McIlvanney | Pantheon | |
| 1978 | Best Novel | Nightwing | Martin Cruz Smith | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1978 | Best Paperback Original | The Quark Maneuver | Mike Jahn | Ballantine | |
| 1978 | Best Paperback Original | The Terrorizers | Donald Hamilton | Gold Medal | |
| 1978 | Best Paperback Original | They've Killed Anna | Marc Olden | Signet | |
| 1978 | Best Paperback Original | Time to Murder and Create | Lawrence Block | Dell | |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | Chance After Chance | Thomas Walsh | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | Jode's Last Hunt | Brian Garfield | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | The Johore Murders | Paul Theroux | Atlantic Monthly Press | Volume: March '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | The Last Rendezvous | Jean Backus | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September '77 |
| 1978 | Best Short Story | The Problem of Li T'ang | Geoffrey Bush | Atlantic Monthly Press | Volume: August '77 |
| 1978 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Men Who Love Women | Gordon Cotler, Don M. Mankiewicz | NBC-TV | Series: Rosetti and Ryan pilot |
| 1978 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | A Killing Affair | E. Arthur Kean | CBS-TV | |
| 1978 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Contract on Cherry Street | Edward Anhalt | NBC-TV | |
| 1978 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | In the Glitter Palace | Jerry Ludwig | NBC-TV | |
| 1978 | Special Edgars | Allen J Hubin | Comment: for a decade as editor of The Armchair Detective | ||
| 1978 | Special Edgars | Murder Ink | Dilys Winn | Workman | |
| 1978 | Special Edgars | Mystery Writer's Handbook | Lawrence Treat | ||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Daphne du Maurier | |||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Dorothy B. Hughes | |||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Ngaio Marsh | |||
| 1978 | The Raven Award | Barney Miller | Danny Arnold | ABC | Comment: executive producer of the TV series |
| 1978 | The Raven Award | Dracula on Broadway | Edward Gorey | Comment: for the sets he designed for Dracula on Broadway | |
| 1978 | The Raven Award | I Am My Brother's Keeper | Richard N. Hughes | WPIX | Comment: for being the best showcase for mystery stories |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Rex Stout | John McAleer | Little, Brown | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | An Autobiography | Agatha Christie | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana | Jack Tracy | Doubleday | |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Thighbone Is Connected to the Knee Bone | Tony Lawrence, Lou Shaw | NBC-TV | Series: Quincy |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | In the Event of My Death | Jerome Coopersmith | ABC | Series: The Andros Targets |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Deadly Maze | Juanita Bartlett | NBC-TV | Series: The Rockford Files |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | By Persons Unknown | Barbara Amiel, George Jonas | Grove Press | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection | Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Agatha Christie Mystery | Derrick Murdoch | Pagurian Press | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dangerous Edge | Gavin Lambert | Grossman | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Life of Raymond Chandler | Frank McShane | Dutton | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery Story | John Ball | University of California at San Diego Publishers | |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Requiem for Murder | James J. Sweeney | ABC | Series: Streets of San Francisco |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Dear Tony | Norman Hudis | ABC | Series: Baretta |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit | David Chase | NBC-TV | Series: The Rockford Files |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Blood and Money | Thomas Thompson | Doubleday | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Murder in Coweta County | Margaret Anne Barnes | Reader's Digest Press | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | The Michigan Murders | Edward Keyes | Reader's Digest Press | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | The Thomas Berryman Number | James Patterson | Little, Brown | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Final Proof | Marie R. Reno | Harper & Row | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Straight | Steve Knickmeyer | Random House | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | The Big Pay-Off | Janice Law | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Your Day in the Barrel | Alan Furst | Atheneum | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Are You in the House Alone? | Richard Peck | Viking | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Mr. Moon's Last Case | Brian Patten | Scribners | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | The Chalk Cross | Berthe Amoss | Seabury Press | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | The Master Puppeteer | Katherine Peterson | Crowell | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Wiley and the Hairy Man | Molly Garrett Bang | Macmillan | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Family Plot | Ernest Lehman | Universal | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Carrie | Lawrence D. Cohen | United Artists | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Marathon Man | William Goldman | Paramount | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | The Omen | David Seltzer | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | A Madness of the Heart | Richard Neely | Crowell | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Cavanaugh Quest | Thomas Gifford | Putnam | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Glory Boys | Gerald Seymour | Random House | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Main | Trevanian | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | Confess, Fletch | Gregory McDonald | Avon | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | Freeze Frame | R.R. Irvine | Popular Library | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Captive City | Daniel Da Cruz | Ballantine | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Dark Side | Kenn Davis, John Stanley | Avon | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Retaliators | Donald Hamilton | Fawcett | |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Like a Terrible Scream | Etta Revesz | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Crazy Old Lady | Avram Davidson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Lavender Lady | Barbara Callahan | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: April '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Nobody Tells Me Anything | Jack Ritchie | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '76 |