* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 1978 | Special Edgars | Murder Ink | Dilys Winn | Workman | |
| 1978 | Special Edgars | Mystery Writer's Handbook | Lawrence Treat | ||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Daphne du Maurier | |||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Dorothy B. Hughes | |||
| 1978 | The Grand Master | Ngaio Marsh | |||
| 1978 | The Raven Award | Barney Miller | Danny Arnold | ABC | Comment: executive producer of the TV series |
| 1978 | The Raven Award | Dracula on Broadway | Edward Gorey | Comment: for the sets he designed for Dracula on Broadway | |
| 1978 | The Raven Award | I Am My Brother's Keeper | Richard N. Hughes | WPIX | Comment: for being the best showcase for mystery stories |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Rex Stout | John McAleer | Little, Brown | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | An Autobiography | Agatha Christie | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana | Jack Tracy | Doubleday | |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Thighbone Is Connected to the Knee Bone | Tony Lawrence, Lou Shaw | NBC-TV | Series: Quincy |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | In the Event of My Death | Jerome Coopersmith | ABC | Series: The Andros Targets |
| 1978 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Deadly Maze | Juanita Bartlett | NBC-TV | Series: The Rockford Files |
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | By Persons Unknown | Barbara Amiel, George Jonas | Grove Press | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection | Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner | McGraw-Hill | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Agatha Christie Mystery | Derrick Murdoch | Pagurian Press | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Dangerous Edge | Gavin Lambert | Grossman | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Life of Raymond Chandler | Frank McShane | Dutton | |
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mystery Story | John Ball | University of California at San Diego Publishers | |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Requiem for Murder | James J. Sweeney | ABC | Series: Streets of San Francisco |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Dear Tony | Norman Hudis | ABC | Series: Baretta |
| 1977 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit | David Chase | NBC-TV | Series: The Rockford Files |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Blood and Money | Thomas Thompson | Doubleday | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Murder in Coweta County | Margaret Anne Barnes | Reader's Digest Press | |
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | The Michigan Murders | Edward Keyes | Reader's Digest Press |