* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Hog Murders | William L. DeAndrea | Avon | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Infernal Device | Michael Kurland | NAL | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Kremlin Conspiracy | Sean Flannery | Charter | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | The Queen is Dead | Glen Keger | Jove Books | |
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | Vortex | David Heller | Avon | |
| 1980 | Best Play | Deathtrap | Ira Levin | ||
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Armed and Dangerous | Geoffrey Norman | Esquire | Volume: March '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Scrimshaw | Brian Garfield | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: December '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | The Boiler | Julian Symons | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | The Imperial Ice House | Paul Theroux | Atlantic Monthly | Volume: April '79 |
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Used In Evidence | Frederick Forsyth | Playboy | Volume: December '79 |
| 1980 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Murder by Natural Causes | Richard Levinson, William Link | CBS-TV | |
| 1980 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Nero Wolfe | Frank Gilroy | ABC | |
| 1980 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Salem's Lot | Paul Monash | CBS-TV | |
| 1980 | Special Edgars | Dick Tracy | Chester Gould | Comment: creator of Dick Tracy nearly 50 years ago | |
| 1980 | Special Edgars | The Bibliography of Crimie Fiction, 1749 - 1975 | Allen J Hubin | University Extension/University of California | |
| 1980 | Special Edgars | The Murderers' Who's Who | J.H.H. Gaute, Robin Odell | ||
| 1980 | The Grand Master | W.R. Burnett | |||
| 1980 | The Raven Award | Muppet Murders | Muppet Show | ||
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery of Agatha Christie | Gwen Robins | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason | Dorothy B. Hughes | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Detective in Hollywood | John Tuska | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe | Julian Symons | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Murder Under Glass | Robert Van Scoyk | NBC-TV | Series: Columbo |
| 1979 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Murder on the Flip Side | Lee Sheldon | NBC-TV | Series: Eddie Capra Mysteries |
| 1979 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Vega$ | Michael Mann | ABC | Series: Vega$ |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Till Death Do Us Part | Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Criminal Violence | Charles Silberman | Random House | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Perjury | Alan Weinstein | Knopf | |
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Why Have They Taken Our Children? | Jack W. Baugh, Jefferson Morgan | Delacorte Press | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | Killed in the Ratings | William L. DeAndrea | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | Blood Secrets | Craig Jones | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | Falling Angel | William Hjortsberg | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | The Memory of Eva Ryker | Donald A. Stanwood | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1979 | Best First Novel | The Scourge | Thomas L. Dunne | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | Alone in Wolf Hollow | Dana Brookins | Seabury Press | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | Emily Upham's Revenge | Avi | Pantheon | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | The Bassumtyte Treasure | Jean Louise Curry | Atheneum | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Secret Scribbler | E.W. Hildick | Macmillan | |
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | The Halloween Pumpkin Smasher | Judith St. George | Putnam | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Magic | William Goldman | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Death on the Nile | Anthony Shaffer | Paramount | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Foul Play | Collin Higgins | Paramount | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | Somebody Killed Her Husband | Reginald Rose | Columbia | |
| 1979 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Fix | Roger L. Simon | Universal | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | Arbor House | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | A Sleeping Life | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | Listening Woman | Tony Hillerman | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Shallow Grave | Jack S. Scott | Harper & Row | |
| 1979 | Best Novel | The Snake | John Godey | Putnam | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Deceit and Deadly Lies | Frank Bandy | Charter | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Charnel House | Graham Masterton | Pinnacle | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Heartstone | Philip Margolin | Pocket Books | |
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Stud Game | David Anthony | Pocket Books | |
| 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 |