* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Best First Novel | The Thomas Berryman Number | James Patterson | Little, Brown | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Final Proof | Marie R. Reno | Harper & Row | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Straight | Steve Knickmeyer | Random House | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | The Big Pay-Off | Janice Law | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1977 | Best First Novel | Your Day in the Barrel | Alan Furst | Atheneum | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Are You in the House Alone? | Richard Peck | Viking | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Mr. Moon's Last Case | Brian Patten | Scribners | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | The Chalk Cross | Berthe Amoss | Seabury Press | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | The Master Puppeteer | Katherine Peterson | Crowell | |
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Wiley and the Hairy Man | Molly Garrett Bang | Macmillan | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Family Plot | Ernest Lehman | Universal | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Carrie | Lawrence D. Cohen | United Artists | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | Marathon Man | William Goldman | Paramount | |
| 1977 | Best Motion Picture | The Omen | David Seltzer | Twentieth Century Fox | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | A Madness of the Heart | Richard Neely | Crowell | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Cavanaugh Quest | Thomas Gifford | Putnam | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Glory Boys | Gerald Seymour | Random House | |
| 1977 | Best Novel | The Main | Trevanian | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | Confess, Fletch | Gregory McDonald | Avon | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | Freeze Frame | R.R. Irvine | Popular Library | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Captive City | Daniel Da Cruz | Ballantine | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Dark Side | Kenn Davis, John Stanley | Avon | |
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | The Retaliators | Donald Hamilton | Fawcett | |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Like a Terrible Scream | Etta Revesz | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Crazy Old Lady | Avram Davidson | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Lavender Lady | Barbara Callahan | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: April '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Nobody Tells Me Anything | Jack Ritchie | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '76 |
| 1977 | Best Short Story | People Don't Do Such Things | Ruth Rendell | Doubleday | Anthology: The Fallen Curtain |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Helter-Skelter | J.P. Miller | CBS-TV | |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Law and Order | E. Jack Neuman | NBC-TV | |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | One of My Wives is Missing | Pierre Marton | ABC | |
| 1977 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Sherlock Holmes in New York | Alvin Sapinsley Jr. | NBC-TV | |
| 1976 | Best Episode in a TV Series | No Immunity for Murder | Joe Gores | CBS-TV | Series: Kojak |
| 1976 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Murder Comes in Little Pills | Robert Foster, Milt Rosen | CBS-TV | Series: Kate McShane |
| 1976 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Mark of Cain | Leonard Katzman | NBC-TV | Series: Petrocelli |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | A Time To Die | Tom Wicker | Quadrangle NY Times | |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | Invitation to a Lynching | Gene Miller | Doubleday | |
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | The House on Garibaldi Street | Isser Harel | Viking | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | The Alvarez Journal | Rex Burns | Harper & Row | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | Harmattan | Thomas Klop | Bobbs-Merrill | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | Paperback Thriller | Lynn Meyer | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | The Devalino Caper | A.J. Russell | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best First Novel | Waltz Across Texas | Max Crawford | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | Z for Zachariah | Robert C. O'Brien | Atheneum | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | Great Steamboat Mystery | Richard Scarry | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | No More Magic | Avi | Pantheon | |
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues | Ellen Raskin | Dutton | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | Three Days of the Condor | David Rayfiel, Lorenzo Semple Jr. | Paramount | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | Black Christmas | Roy Moore | Warner Bros. | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | Farewell, My Lovely | David Zelag Goodman | AVCO-Embassy | |
| 1976 | Best Motion Picture | The Drowning Pool | Walter Hill, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Tracy Keenan Wynn | Warner Bros. | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Hopscotch | Brian Garfield | M. Evans | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Harry's Game | Gerald Seymour | Random House | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | Operation Alcestic | Maggie Rennert | Prentice-Hall | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | The Gargoyle Conspiracy | Marvin Albert | Doubleday | |
| 1976 | Best Novel | The Money Harvest | Ross Thomas | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | Autopsy | John R. Feegel | Avon | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | Charlie's Back in Town | Jacqueline Park | Popular Library | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Assassination | David Vowell | Bantam | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Midas Coffin | Simon Quinn | Dell | |
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | The Set-Up | Milt Machlin, Robin Moore | Pyramid | |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Jail | Jesse Hill Ford | Playboy | Volume: March '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | Night Crawlers | Joyce Harrington | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: January '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | Old Friends | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: September, '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Fall of the Coin | Ruth Rendell | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '75 |
| 1976 | Best Short Story | The Many-Flavored Crime | Jack Ritchie | Mystery Digest Magazine | Volume: December '75 |
| 1976 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Legend of Lizzie Borden | William Bast | ABC | |
| 1976 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case | Harold Gast | NBC-TV | |
| 1976 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Hustling | Fay Kanin | ABC | |
| 1976 | Special Edgars | Jorge Luis Borges | Comment: for distinguished contribution to the mystery genre | ||
| 1976 | Special Edgars | Encyclopedia Brown books | Donald J. Sobol | Comment: juvenile mystery | |
| 1976 | The Grand Master | Graham Greene | |||
| 1976 | The Raven Award | Eddie Lawrence | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
| 1976 | The Raven Award | Leo Margolies | Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine | Comment: editor | |
| 1975 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Requiem for C.Z. Smith | Roberts Collins | NBC-TV | Series: Police Story |
| 1975 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Anatomy of Two Rapes | Richard Bluel, Pat Fielder | NBC-TV | Series: Policewoman |
| 1975 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Gertrude | Howard Rodman | ABC | Series: Harry O. |
| 1975 | Best Fact Crime | Helter Skelter | Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1975 | Best Fact Crime | Dummy | Ernest Tidyman | Little, Brown | |
| 1975 | Best Fact Crime | The Memphis Murders | Gerald Meyer | Seabury Press | |
| 1975 | Best First Novel | Fletch | Gregory McDonald | Bobbs-Merrill | |
| 1975 | Best First Novel | Saturday Games | Brown Meggs | Random House | |
| 1975 | Best First Novel | Target Practice | Nicholas Meyer | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1975 | Best First Novel | The Jones Man | Vern E. Smith | Henry Regnery | |
| 1975 | Best First Novel | The Kreutzman Formula | Dominic Koski, Virgil Scott | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1975 | Best Juvenile | The Dangling Witness | Jay Bennett | Delacorte Press | |
| 1975 | Best Juvenile | Fire in the Stone | Colin Thiele | Harper & Row | |
| 1975 | Best Juvenile | Here Lies the Body | Scott Corbett | Atlantic-Little, Brown | |
| 1975 | Best Juvenile | The Girl in the Grove | David Severn | Harper & Row | |
| 1975 | Best Juvenile | The Mysterious Red Tape Gang | Joan Lowery Nixon | Putnam | |
| 1975 | Best Motion Picture | Chinatown | Robert Towne | Paramount | |
| 1975 | Best Motion Picture | Murder on the Orient Express | Paul Dehn | Paramount | |
| 1975 | Best Motion Picture | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | Paramount | |
| 1975 | Best Motion Picture | The Parallax View | David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr. | Paramount | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | Peter's Pence | Jon Cleary | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | Goodbye and Amen | Francis Clifford | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | The Lester Affair | Andrew Garve | Harper & Row | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | The Man Who Loved Zoos | Malcolm Bosse | Putnam | |
| 1975 | Best Novel | The Silver Bears | Paul E. Erdman | Scribners |