* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Best Short Story | One Hit Wonder | Gabrielle Kraft | Berkley | Anthology: Sisters in Crime 5 |
| 1993 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Prime Suspect | Lynda LaPlante | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1993 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Burden of Proof | John Gay | ABC | |
| 1993 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Honor Thy Mother | Richard Delong Adams, Robert L. Freedman | Creative Artists | |
| 1993 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Mrs. Cage | Nancy Barr | American Playhouse | |
| 1993 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Stay the Night | Dan Freudenberger | ABC | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | A Little Bit Dead | Chap Reaver | Delacorte Press | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | Breaking the Fall | Michael Cadnum | Viking | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | The Highest Form of Killing | Malcolm Rose | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | The One Who Came Back | Joann Mazzio | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | The Weekend Was Murder | Joan Lowery Nixon | Delacorte Press | |
| 1993 | The Grand Master | Donald E. Westlake | |||
| 1993 | The Raven Award | President Bill Clinton | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1993 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | A Will Is A Way | Stephen Saylor | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '92 |
| 1993 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Alias S.S. Van Dine | John Loughery | Scribners | |
| 1993 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life | David Coomes | Lion Publishing | |
| 1993 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Doubleday Crime Club Compendium | Ellen Nehr | Offspring Press | Volume: 1928-1991 |
| 1993 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy | Jeffrey Meyers | Scribners | |
| 1993 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Conspiracy | Rene Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin | NBC-TV | Series: Law & Order |
| 1993 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Killer Book | Paul Bernbaum | Fox | Series: Likely Suspects |
| 1993 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Point of View | Rene Balcer, Walon Green | NBC-TV | Series: Law & Order, Law & Order |
| 1993 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Smells Like Teen Spirit | Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin | Fox | Series: Likely Suspects/Fox |
| 1993 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Dead File | Tom Sawyer | CBS-TV | Series: Murder, She Wrote |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | Swift Justice | Harry Farrell | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | Blood Echoes | Thomas H. Cook | Dutton | |
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | Everything She Ever Wanted | Ann Rule | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1992 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance | Kenneth Silverman | HarperCollins | |
| 1992 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Agatha Christie: Murder in Four Acts | Peter Haining | Virgin Books | |
| 1992 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil | Michael J. McCauley | Mysterious Press | |
| 1992 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction | Frankie E. Bailey | Greenwood Press | |
| 1992 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman | Ernie Bulow, Tony Hillerman | University of New Mexico Press | |
| 1992 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Poirot: The Lost Mine | Michael Baker, David Renwick | WGBH | Comment: Mystery!; Series: Hercule Poirot |
| 1992 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Shoscombe Old Place | Gary Hopkins | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1992 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Sonata for Solo Organ | Michael S. Chernuchin, Joe Morgenstern | NBC-TV | Series: Law & Order, Law & Order |
| 1992 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Problem of Thor Bridge | Jeremy Paul | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets | David Simon | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano | Andris Kurins, Joseph F. O'Brien | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Death of Elvis: What Really Happened | James P. Cole, Charles C. Thompson II | Delacorte Press | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Den of Thieves | James B. Stewart | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell | Christopher Joyce, Eric Stover | Little, Brown | |
| 1992 | Best First Novel | Slow Motion Riot | Peter Blauner | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1992 | Best First Novel | A Cool Breeze in the Underground | Don Winslow | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1992 | Best First Novel | Deadline | Marcy Heidish | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1992 | Best First Novel | Deadstick | Terence Faherty | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1992 | Best First Novel | Zero at the Bone | Mary Willis Walker | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Wanted...Mud Blossom | Betsy Byars | Delacorte Press | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Double Trouble Squared | Kathryn Lasky | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Finding Buck McHenry | Alfred Slote | HarperCollins | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Mystery on October Road | Alison Cragin Herzig, Jane Lawrence Mali | Viking | |
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Witch Weed | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Delacorte Press | |
| 1992 | Best Motion Picture | The Silence of the Lambs | Ted Tally | Orion | |
| 1992 | Best Motion Picture | Dead Again | Scott Frank | Paramount | |
| 1992 | Best Motion Picture | J.F.K. | Zachary Sklar, Oliver Stone | Warner Bros. | |
| 1992 | Best Novel | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Lawrence Block | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1992 | Best Novel | Don't Say a Word | Andrew Klavan | Pocket Books | |
| 1992 | Best Novel | I.O.U. | Nancy Pickard | Pocket Books | |
| 1992 | Best Novel | Palindrome | Stuart Woods | HarperCollins | |
| 1992 | Best Novel | Prior Convictions | Lia Matera | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1992 | Best Paperback Original | Dark Maze | Thomas Adcock | Pocket Books | |
| 1992 | Best Paperback Original | Cracking Up | Ed Naha | Pocket Books | |
| 1992 | Best Paperback Original | Fine Distinctions | Deborah Valentine | Avon | |
| 1992 | Best Paperback Original | Midtown North | Christopher Newman | Fawcett | |
| 1992 | Best Paperback Original | Murder in the Dog Days | P.M. Carlson | Bantam | |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Nine Sons | Wendy Hornsby | Berkley | Anthology: Sisters in Crime 4 |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | A Blow for Freedom | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: October '91 |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Dreaming in Black and White | Susan Schwartz | Tor | Anthology: Psycho-Paths |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Sleeper | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '91 |
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Spasmo | Liza Cody | Mysterious Press | Anthology: A Classic English Crime |
| 1992 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Murder 101 | Bill Condon, Roy Johansen | USA | |
| 1992 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | A Murder of Quality | John le Carre | PBS | Series: Masterpiece Theatre |
| 1992 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Devices and Desires | Thomas Ellice | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1992 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Love, Lies, and Murder | Danielle Hill | NBC-TV | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | The Weirdo | Theodore Taylor | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | Calling Home | Michael Cadnum | Viking | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | Scarface | Peter Nelson | Archway | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | The Christmas Killer | Patricia Windsor | Scholastic | |
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | We All Fall Down | Robert Cormier | Delacorte Press | |
| 1992 | The Ellery Queen Award | Margaret Norton | |||
| 1992 | The Grand Master | Elmore Leonard | |||
| 1992 | The Raven Award | Harold Q. Masur | Comment: for his years of service to MWA as general counsel | ||
| 1991 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927-1988 | John Conquest | Garland | |
| 1991 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Eric Ambler | Peter Lewis | Continuum | |
| 1991 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Hillary Waugh's Guide to Mysteries and Mystery Writing | Hillary Waugh | Writer's Digest Books | |
| 1991 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John Dickinson Carr: A Critical Study | S.T. Joshi | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1991 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers | Catherine Kenney | Kent State University Press | |
| 1991 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Goodnight, Dear Heart | Paul Brown | NBC-TV | Series: Quantum Leap |
| 1991 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Gabriel's Fire | Coleman Luck, Jacqueline Zambrano | ABC | Series: Gabriel's Fire |
| 1991 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Happily Ever After | David Black, Robert Stuart Nathan | NBC-TV | Series: Law & Order |
| 1991 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Justice Swerved | David E. Kelley, Bruce Zabel | NBC-TV | Series: L.A. Law |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | In a Child's Name | Peter Maas | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | A Death in White Bear Lake | Barry Siegel | Bantam | |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | Beyond Reason | Ken Englade | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | Goombata | John Cummings, Ernest Volkman | Little, Brown | |
| 1991 | Best First Novel | Postmortem | Patricia D. Cornwell | Scribners | |
| 1991 | Best First Novel | Come Nightfall | Gary Amo | Pinnacle | |
| 1991 | Best First Novel | Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1991 | Best First Novel | Nobody Lives Forever | Edna Buchanan | Random House | |
| 1991 | Best First Novel | Passion Play | W. Edward Blain | Putnam | |
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | Stonewords | Pam Conrad | Harper & Row | |
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | Cave Ghost | Barbara Steiner | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |