* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 1981 | Best Novel | The Spy's Wife | Reginald Hill | Pantheon | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Public Murders | Bill Granger | Jove Books | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Blood Innocents | Thomas H. Cook | Playboy | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Looking for Ginger North | John Dunning | Fawcett | |
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Tough Luck, L.A. | Murray Sinclair | Pinnacle | |
| 1981 | Best Play | Ricochet | Paul Nathan | Comment: off-Broadway show | |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | Horn Man | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | The Choirboy | William Bankier | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | The Most Dangerous Man Alive | Edward D. Hoch | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '80 |
| 1981 | Best Short Story | Until You Are Dead | John Lutz | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '80 |
| 1981 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | City in Fear | Albert Ruben | ABC | |
| 1981 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Revenge of the Stepford Wives | David Wiltse | NBC-TV | |
| 1981 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Last Song | Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz | CBS-TV | |
| 1981 | Special Edgars | Lawrence Spivak | Comment: founding publisher of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 40 years ago | ||
| 1981 | Special Edgars | Mystery! | Joan Wilson | Comment: best in international programming; Series: PBS | |
| 1981 | Special Edgars | The Edge of Night | unknown | Comment: celebrating its 25th year as a TV series | |
| 1981 | The Grand Master | Stanley Ellin | |||
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography | Ralph E. Hone | Kent State University Press | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | As Her Whimsey Took Her | Margaret Hannay | Kent State University Press | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Sherlock Holmes, The Man and His World | H.R.F. Keating | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Secret of Grown-Ups | Vera Caspary | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Skin | Robin Chapman, Roald Dahl | Anglia Ltd. | Series: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Hollywood Whodunit | Michelle Gallery | CBS-TV | Series: Lou Grant |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Only the Pretty Girls Die | Mark Rodgers | NBC-TV | Series: Eischield |
| 1980 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Stone | Stephen J. Cannell | ABC | Series: Stone |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | The Falcon and the Snowman | Robert Lindsey | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Anyone's Daughter | Shana Alexander | Viking | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Blood Will Tell | Gary Cartwright | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Sentenced to Die | Stephen H. Gettinger | Macmillan | |
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Zebra | Clark Howard | Marek | |
| 1980 | Best First Novel | The Lasko Tangent | Richard North Patterson | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1980 | Best First Novel | Follow the Leader | John Logue | Crown | |
| 1980 | Best First Novel | Night Trains | Peter Heath Fine | Lippincott | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore | Joan Lowery Nixon | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | Chameleon Was a Spy | Diane Redfield Massie | Crowell | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | Mystery Cottage in Left Field | Remus F. Caroselli | Putnam | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | Mystery of the Eagle's Claw | Frances Wosmek | Westminster Press | |
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | The Whispered Horse | Lynn Hall | Follett | |
| 1980 | Best Motion Picture | The Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | United Artists | |
| 1980 | Best Motion Picture | Murder by Decree | John Hopkins | AVCO-Embassy | |
| 1980 | Best Motion Picture | Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Orion | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | The Rheingold Route | Arthur Maling | Harper & Row | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | A Coat of Varnish | C.P. Snow | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Death of a Mystery Writer | Robert Barnard | Scribners | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Fire in the Barley | Frank Parrish | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1980 | Best Novel | Make Death Love Me | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday |