* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Best Novel | The Eighth Circle | Stanley Ellin | Random House | |
| 1959 | Best Novel | A Gentleman Called | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Scribners | |
| 1959 | Best Novel | The Madhouse in Washington Square | David Alexander | Lippincott | |
| 1959 | Best Novel | The Woman in the Woods | Lee Blackstock | Doubleday | |
| 1959 | Best Short Story | Over There, Darkness | William O'Farrell | Sleuth | Volume: October '58 |
| 1959 | Book Jacket Award | Western Printing & Lithographing Co. | Comment: for Dell book jackets | ||
| 1959 | Special Edgars | American Murder Ballads | Olive Wooley Burt | Oxford University Press | |
| 1959 | The Grand Master | Rex Stout | |||
| 1959 | The Raven Award | Lawrence G. Blochman | Comment: for long and distinguished service to MWA and The Third Degree | ||
| 1959 | The Raven Award | Frederic G. Melcher | Comment: on his retirement after 35 years with Publishers Weekly | ||
| 1959 | The Raven Award | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Comment: (posthumous) Reader of the Year, accepted by Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
| 1958 | Best First Novel | Root of Evil | James Cross | Messner | |
| 1958 | Best Motion Picture | Twelve Angry Men | Reginald Rose | Orion/Nova | |
| 1958 | Best Motion Picture | Witness for the Prosecution | Harry Kurnitz, Billy Wilder | United Artists | |
| 1958 | Best Novel | Room to Swing | Ed Lacy | Harper | |
| 1958 | Best Novel | The Bushman Who Came Back | Arthur Upfield | Doubleday | |
| 1958 | Best Novel | The Longest Second | Bill Ballinger | Harper | |
| 1958 | Best Novel | The Night of the Good Children | Marjorie Carleton | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1958 | Best Radio Drama | The Galindez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror | Jay MacMullen | CBS | |
| 1958 | Best Short Story | The Secret of the Bottle | Gerald Kersh | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: December 7 '57 |
| 1958 | Best Short Story | And Already Lost | Charlotte Armstrong | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '57 |
| 1958 | Book Jacket Award | Harper Bros. | Comment: for general excellence | ||
| 1958 | Book Jacket Award | Dell | Comment: for their Great Mystery Series book jackets | ||
| 1958 | The Grand Master | Vincent Starrett | |||
| 1958 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Mechanical Manhunt | Harold Swanton | NBC-TV | Series: Alcoa Hour |
| 1958 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Trial of Lizzie Borden | Omnibus staff | ABC | Series: Omnibus |
| 1958 | Best Fact Crime | The D.A.'s Man | Harold R. Danforth, James D. Horan | Crown | |
| 1958 | Best Fact Crime | Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner | Henry Goddard, Patrick Pringle | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1958 | Best Fact Crime | The Girl in the Belfry | Joseph Henry Jackson, Lenore Glen Offord | Gold Medal | |
| 1958 | Best First Novel | Knock and Wait a While | William Rawle Weeks | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1958 | Best First Novel | Bay of the Damned | Warren Carrier | John Day | |
| 1957 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Fine Art of Murder | Sidney Carroll | ABC | Series: Omnibus |
| 1957 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Playhouse 90 | Comment: awarded a Scroll for excellence of production and quality of its telecasts | ||
| 1957 | Best Fact Crime | Night Fell on Georgia | Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels | Dell | |
| 1957 | Best Fact Crime | Historical Whodunits | Hugh Ross Williamson | Macmillan | |
| 1957 | Best Fact Crime | Ruby McCollum, The Woman in the Suwanne Jail | William Bradford Huie | Dutton | |
| 1957 | Best First Novel | Rebecca's Pride | Donald McNutt Douglass | Harper | |
| 1957 | Best Novel | A Dram of Poison | Charlotte Armstrong | Coward-McCann | |
| 1957 | Best Novel | The Man Who Didn't Fly | Margot Bennett | Harper | |
| 1957 | Best Short Story | The Blessington Method | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '56 |
| 1957 | Best Short Story | The Gentlest of the Brothers | David Alexander | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '56 |
| 1957 | Best Short Story | The Last Spin | Evan Hunter | Manhunt | Volume: September '56 |
| 1957 | Book Jacket Award | Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife | Doubleday | Comment: hardcover | |
| 1957 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Curtis W. Casewit | Denver Post | ||
| 1957 | Special Edgars | Compulsion | Meyer Levin | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1957 | The Raven Award | Dorothy Kilgallen | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1956 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Taste of Honey | Alvin Sapinsley Jr. | ABC | Series: Elgin Hour |
| 1956 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Thin Air | Ben Starr | CBS-TV | Series: Climax |
| 1956 | Best Fact Crime | Dead and Gone | Manly Wade Wellman | University of North Carolina Press | |
| 1956 | Best Fact Crime | The Assassins | Robert J. Donovan | Harper | |
| 1956 | Best Fact Crime | The Truth About Belle Gunness | Lillian de la Torre | Gold Medal | |
| 1956 | Best First Novel | The Perfectionist | Lane Kauffman | Lippincott | |
| 1956 | Best First Novel | In His Blood | Harold R. Daniels | Dell | |
| 1956 | Best First Novel | Much Ado About Murder | Fred Levon | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1956 | Best Foreign film | Diabolique | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Filmsonor | |
| 1956 | Best Motion Picture | The Desperate Hours | Joseph Hayes | Paramount | |
| 1956 | Best Novel | Beast in View | Margaret Millar | Random House | |
| 1956 | Best Novel | The Case of the Talking Bug | The Gordons | Doubleday | |
| 1956 | Best Novel | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | Coward-McCann | |
| 1956 | Best Short Story | Dream No More | Philip MacDonald | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '55 |
| 1956 | Best Short Story | Invitation to an Accident | Wade Miller | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '55 |
| 1956 | Book Jacket Award | Scribners | |||
| 1955 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Smoke | Gore Vidal | CBS-TV | Series: Suspense |
| 1955 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Long Goodbye | E. Jack Neuman | CBS-TV | Series: Climax |
| 1955 | Best Fact Crime | The Girl with the Scarlet Brand | Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson | Fawcett | |
| 1955 | Best First Novel | Go, Lovely Rose | Jean Potts | Scribners | |
| 1955 | Best Motion Picture | Rear Window | John Michael Hayes | Paramount | |
| 1955 | Best Novel | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1955 | Best Play | Witness for the Prosecution | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1955 | Best Radio Drama | The Tree | Stanley Niss | CBS | Series: 21st Precinct |
| 1955 | Best Short Story | The House Party | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '54 |
| 1955 | Book Jacket Award | Berton Roueche | Dell | Comment: softcover | |
| 1955 | Book Jacket Award | Eleven Blue Men | Little, Brown | ||
| 1955 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Drexel Drake | Chicago Tribune | ||
| 1955 | The Grand Master | Agatha Christie | |||
| 1954 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Crime at Blossom's | Jerome Ross | CBS-TV | Series: Studio One |
| 1954 | Best Fact Crime | Why Did They Kill? | John Bartlow Martin | Ballantine | |
| 1954 | Best First Novel | A Kiss Before Dying | Ira Levin | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1954 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Heat | Sidney Boehm, William P. McGivern | Columbia | Comment: Boehm is the screenwriter, McGivern is the author of the novel |
| 1954 | Best Novel | Beat Not the Bones | Charlotte Jay | Harper | |
| 1954 | Best Radio Drama | The Shot | E. Jack Neuman | CBS | Series: Suspense |
| 1954 | Best Short Story | Someone Like You | Roald Dahl | Knopf | |
| 1954 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Brett Halliday | Westport Town Crier | Comment: and other Connecticut papers | |
| 1954 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Helen McCloy | Westport Town Crier | Comment: and other Connecticut papers | |
| 1954 | Special Edgars | The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories | Mary Roberts Rinehart | Rinehart & Co. | |
| 1954 | The Raven Award | Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales | Comment: retiring medical examiner, New York City | ||
| 1954 | The Raven Award | Tom Lehrer | Comment: for his mystery parodies | ||
| 1954 | The Raven Award | Dr. Harrison Martland | Comment: retiring medical examiner, Essex County, New Jersey | ||
| 1953 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Dragnet | Jack Webb | NBC-TV | Comment: and Michael Meshekoff, Producer |
| 1953 | Best Fact Crime | Court of Last Resort | Erle Stanley Gardner | Wm. Sloane Association | |
| 1953 | Best First Novel | Don't Cry for Me | William Campbell Gault | Dutton | |
| 1953 | Best First Novel | The Inward Eye | Peggy Bacon | Scribners | |
| 1953 | Best Motion Picture | Five Fingers | Otto Lang, Michael G. Wilson | Twentieth Century Fox | Comment: Lang is the producer |
| 1953 | Best Play | Dial M for Murder | Frederick Knott | ||
| 1953 | Best Radio Drama | The Mysterious Traveler | Robert Arthur, David Kogan | Mutual Broadcasting System | |
| 1953 | Best Short Story | Something to Hide | Philip MacDonald | Doubleday | |
| 1953 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Anthony Boucher | New York Times | Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | |
| 1953 | The Raven Award | E.T. Guymon Jr | Comment: for his outstanding library of mystery literature | ||
| 1952 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Web | Franklin Heller | CBS-TV | Comment: and Goodson-Todman, package producers of the show |
| 1952 | Best Fact Crime | True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality | St. Clair McKelway | Random House |