* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Different Drummers | Linda O. Johnston | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '88 |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die | Francis M. Nevins, Jr. | Mysterious Press | |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Silk Stalkings: When Women Write of Murder | Victoria Nichols, Susan Thompson | Black Lizard | |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel | Maureen T. Reddy | Continuum | |
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dime Detectives | Ron Goulart | Mysterious Press | |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Devil's Foot | Gary Hopkins | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Date with an Angel | David J. Burke, Stephen Kronish | CBS-TV | Series: Wiseguy |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | May the Road Rise Up | Richard C. Okie | CBS-TV | Series: Simon & Simon |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim | John Mortimer | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1989 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Black Tower, Episode 1 | William Humble | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | In Broad Daylight | Harry N. MacLean | Harper & Row | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | A Gathering of Saints | Robert Lindsey | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring | Pete Earley | Bantam | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | Monkey on a Stick | Lindsey Gruson, John Hubner | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | The Cocaine Wars | Paul Eddy, Hugo Sabogal, Sara Walden | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | Carolina Skeletons | David Stout | Mysterious Press | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | A Great Deliverance | Elizabeth George | Bantam | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | Julian Solo | Shelley Reuben | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | Murder Once Done | Mary Lou Bennett | Perseverance Press | |
| 1989 | Best First Novel | The Murder of Frau Schutz | J. Madison Davis | Walker | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Megan's Island | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Following the Mystery Man | Mary Downing Hahn | Clarion Books | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Is There Anybody There? | Eve Bunting | Lippincott | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Something Upstairs | Avi | Orchard Books | |
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb | John Bellairs | Dial | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | Miramax | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | A Fish Called Wanda | John Cleese | MGM | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | Die Hard | Steven E. de Souza, Jeb Stuart | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | Masquerade | Dick Wolf | MGM | |
| 1989 | Best Motion Picture | Things Change | David Mamet, Shel Silverstein | Columbia | |
| 1989 | Best Novel | A Cold Red Sunrise | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Scribners | |
| 1989 | Best Novel | A Thief of Time | Tony Hillerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1989 | Best Novel | In the Lake of the Moon | David L. Lindsey | Atheneum | |
| 1989 | Best Novel | Joey's Case | K.C. Constantine | Mysterious Press | |
| 1989 | Best Novel | Sacrificial Ground | Thomas H. Cook | Putnam | |
| 1989 | Best Paperback Original | The Telling of Lies | Timothy Findley | Dell | |
| 1989 | Best Paperback Original | A Radical Departure | Lia Matera | Bantam | |
| 1989 | Best Paperback Original | Judgement By Fire | Fredrick D. Huebner | Fawcett | |
| 1989 | Best Paperback Original | Preacher | Ted Thackrey Jr. | Jove Books | |
| 1989 | Best Paperback Original | Trapdoor | Keith Peterson | Bantam | |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Flicks | Bill Crenshaw | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: August '88 |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Bridey's Caller | Judith O'Neill | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '88 |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Deja Vu | Doug Allyn | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '88 |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern | Bill Pronzini | Mysterious Press | Anthology: An Eye For Justice |
| 1989 | Best Short Story | The Alley | Stephen Wasylyk | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '88 |
| 1989 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Man Against the Mob | David J. Kinghorn | NBC-TV | |
| 1989 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | A Whisper Kills | John Robert Bensick | ABC | |
| 1989 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | She Was Marked for Murder | David Stenn | NBC-TV | |
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | Incident at Loring Groves | Sonia Levitin | Dial | |
| 1988 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Introduction to the Detective Story | Leroy Lad Panek | Popular Press | |
| 1988 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham | B. A. Pike | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1988 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Corridors of Deceit, The World of John le Carre | Peter Wolfe | Popular Library | |
| 1988 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Crime and Mystery, The 100 Best Books | H.R.F. Keating | Carroll & Graf | |
| 1988 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Musgrave Ritual | Jeremy Paul | WGBH | Series: Mystery! |
| 1988 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Blue Movie | Ron Hansen | NBC-TV | Series: Private Lives |
| 1988 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Nicky the Rose | John Leekley, Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. | NBC-TV | Series: Private Eye |
| 1988 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | Eric Blakeney | CBS-TV | Series: Wiseguy |
| 1988 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Right to Remain Silent | David Abramowitz | CBS-TV | Series: Cagney & Lacey |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | CBS Murders | Richard Hammer | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | Dreams of Ada | Robert Mayer | Viking | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | Engaged to Murder | Loretta Schwartz-Noble | Viking | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | Talked to Death | Stephen Singular | Beechtree Books/Morrow | |
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | The Man Who Robbed the Pierre | Ira Berkow | Atheneum | |
| 1988 | Best First Novel | Death Among Strangers | Deidre S. Laiken | Macmillan | |
| 1988 | Best First Novel | Detective | Parnell Hall | Donald I. Fine | |
| 1988 | Best First Novel | Heat Lightning | John Lantigua | Putnam | |
| 1988 | Best First Novel | Lover Man | Dallas Murphy | Scribners | |
| 1988 | Best First Novel | The Spoiler | Domenic Stansberry | Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks | Susan Shreve | Henry Holt | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | Bury the Dead | Peter Carter | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | The House on the Hill | Eileen Dunlop | Holiday House | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | The Twisted Windows | Lois Duncan | Delacorte Press | |
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | Through the Hidden Door | Rosemary Wells | Dial | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | Stakeout | Jim Kouf | Buena Vista Pictures | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | Best Seller | Larry Cohen | Orion | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | Robocop | Michael Miner, Edward Neumeir | John Davison Productions | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Easy | Daniel Petrie Jr. | Columbia | |
| 1988 | Best Motion Picture | The Stepfather | Donald E. Westlake | ITC Productions | |
| 1988 | Best Novel | Old Bones | Aaron Elkins | Mysterious Press | |
| 1988 | Best Novel | A Trouble of Fools | Linda Barnes | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1988 | Best Novel | Nursery Crimes | B.M. Gill | Scribners | |
| 1988 | Best Novel | Rough Cider | Peter Lovesey | Mysterious Press | |
| 1988 | Best Novel | The Corpse in Oozak's Pond | Charlotte MacLeod | Mysterious Press | |
| 1988 | Best Paperback Original | Bimbos of the Death Sun | Sharyn McCrumb | TSR | |
| 1988 | Best Paperback Original | Bullshot | Gabrielle Kraft | Pocket Books | |
| 1988 | Best Paperback Original | Deadly Intrusion | Walter Dillon | Bantam | |
| 1988 | Best Paperback Original | The Long Way to Die | James N. Frey | Bantam | |
| 1988 | Best Paperback Original | The Monkey's Raincoat | Robert Crais | Bantam | |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Soft Monkey | Harlan Ellison | Fedora, Inc. | Anthology: Mystery Scene Reader |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Breakfast Television | Robert Barnard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '87 |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Mr. Felix | Paula Gosling | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '87 |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Stroke of Genius | George Baxt | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '87 |
| 1988 | Best Short Story | The Au Pair Girl | Joyce Harrington | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | Anthology: Matter of Crime #1 |
| 1988 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Nutcracker: Money, Murder, and Madness | William Hanley | NBC-TV | |
| 1988 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Deadly Deception | Gordon Cotler | CBS-TV | |
| 1988 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Old Dogs | Michelle Gallery | ABC | |
| 1988 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Hands of the Stranger | Arthur Kopit | NBC-TV | |
| 1988 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Bob Shayne | CBS-TV | |
| 1988 | The Ellery Queen Award | Ruth Cavin | |||
| 1988 | The Grand Master | Phyllis A. Whitney |