* Bold records denote winners
Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
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1960 | Best Foreign film | Sapphire | Janet Green | Rank/Artna | |
1960 | Best Motion Picture | North by Northwest | Ernest Lehman | MGM | |
1960 | Best Novel | The Hours Before Dawn | Celia Fremlin | Lippincott | |
1960 | Best Novel | The List of Adrian Messenger | Philip MacDonald | Doubleday | |
1960 | Best Radio Drama | Sorry, Wrong Number | Lucille Fletcher | CBS | Series: Suspense |
1960 | Best Radio Drama | 1959 Suspense | William N. Robson | CBS | Comment: Raven Award |
1960 | Best Short Story | The Landlady | Roald Dahl | The New Yorker | Volume: November '59 |
1960 | Best Short Story | The Day of the Bullet | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: October '59 |
1960 | The Raven Award | Ray Brennan | Comment: for crime reporting | ||
1960 | The Raven Award | David C. Cook | Comment: for Best Detective Stories of the Year | ||
1960 | The Raven Award | Alfred Hitchcock | Comment: for his contribution to the mystery genre | ||
1960 | The Raven Award | Gail Jackson | Comment: producer of Perry Mason TV series | ||
1960 | The Raven Award | Phyllis McGinley | Comment: Mystery Fan of the Year | ||
1959 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Capital Punishment | James Lee | NBC-TV | Series: Omnibus |
1959 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Edge of Truth | Adrian Spies | CBS-TV | Series: Studio One |
1959 | Best Fact Crime | They Died in the Chair | Wenzell Brown | Popular Library | |
1959 | Best Fact Crime | The Deadly Reasons | Edward D. Radin | Popular Library | |
1959 | Best Fact Crime | The Incurable Wound | Berton Roueche | Little, Brown | |
1959 | Best Fact Crime | The Murder and the Trial | Edgar Lustgarten | Scribners | |
1959 | Best Fact Crime | The Royal Vultures | Hillel Black | Pocket Books | Comment: as told by Sam Kollman |
1959 | Best First Novel | The Bright Road to Fear | Richard Martin Stern | Ballantine | |
1959 | Best First Novel | Death of a Spinster | Frances Duncombe | Scribners | |
1959 | Best First Novel | Now Will You Try for Murder? | Harry Olesker | Simon & Schuster | |
1959 | Best First Novel | The Man Who Disappeared | Edgar J. Bohle | Random House | |
1959 | Best Foreign film | Inspector Maigret | Georges Simenon | Intermondia/J.P. Guibert/Jolly Film | |
1959 | Best Motion Picture | The Defiant Ones | Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith | United Artists | |
1959 | Best Novel | The Eighth Circle | Stanley Ellin | Random House | |
1959 | Best Novel | A Gentleman Called | Dorothy Salisbury Davis | Scribners | |
1959 | Best Novel | The Madhouse in Washington Square | David Alexander | Lippincott | |
1959 | Best Novel | The Woman in the Woods | Lee Blackstock | Doubleday | |
1959 | Best Short Story | Over There, Darkness | William O'Farrell | Sleuth | Volume: October '58 |
1959 | Book Jacket Award | Western Printing & Lithographing Co. | Comment: for Dell book jackets | ||
1959 | Special Edgars | American Murder Ballads | Olive Wooley Burt | Oxford University Press | |
1959 | The Grand Master | Rex Stout | |||
1959 | The Raven Award | Lawrence G. Blochman | Comment: for long and distinguished service to MWA and The Third Degree | ||
1959 | The Raven Award | Frederic G. Melcher | Comment: on his retirement after 35 years with Publishers Weekly | ||
1959 | The Raven Award | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Comment: (posthumous) Reader of the Year, accepted by Eleanor Roosevelt | ||
1958 | Best First Novel | Root of Evil | James Cross | Messner | |
1958 | Best Motion Picture | Twelve Angry Men | Reginald Rose | Orion/Nova | |
1958 | Best Motion Picture | Witness for the Prosecution | Harry Kurnitz, Billy Wilder | United Artists | |
1958 | Best Novel | Room to Swing | Ed Lacy | Harper | |
1958 | Best Novel | The Bushman Who Came Back | Arthur Upfield | Doubleday | |
1958 | Best Novel | The Longest Second | Bill Ballinger | Harper | |
1958 | Best Novel | The Night of the Good Children | Marjorie Carleton | Wm. Morrow | |
1958 | Best Radio Drama | The Galindez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror | Jay MacMullen | CBS | |
1958 | Best Short Story | The Secret of the Bottle | Gerald Kersh | Saturday Evening Post | Volume: December 7 '57 |
1958 | Best Short Story | And Already Lost | Charlotte Armstrong | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '57 |
1958 | Book Jacket Award | Harper Bros. | Comment: for general excellence | ||
1958 | Book Jacket Award | Dell | Comment: for their Great Mystery Series book jackets | ||
1958 | The Grand Master | Vincent Starrett | |||
1958 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Mechanical Manhunt | Harold Swanton | NBC-TV | Series: Alcoa Hour |
1958 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Trial of Lizzie Borden | Omnibus staff | ABC | Series: Omnibus |
1958 | Best Fact Crime | The D.A.'s Man | Harold R. Danforth, James D. Horan | Crown | |
1958 | Best Fact Crime | Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner | Henry Goddard, Patrick Pringle | Wm. Morrow | |
1958 | Best Fact Crime | The Girl in the Belfry | Joseph Henry Jackson, Lenore Glen Offord | Gold Medal | |
1958 | Best First Novel | Knock and Wait a While | William Rawle Weeks | Houghton Mifflin | |
1958 | Best First Novel | Bay of the Damned | Warren Carrier | John Day | |
1957 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Fine Art of Murder | Sidney Carroll | ABC | Series: Omnibus |
1957 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Playhouse 90 | Comment: awarded a Scroll for excellence of production and quality of its telecasts | ||
1957 | Best Fact Crime | Night Fell on Georgia | Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels | Dell | |
1957 | Best Fact Crime | Historical Whodunits | Hugh Ross Williamson | Macmillan | |
1957 | Best Fact Crime | Ruby McCollum, The Woman in the Suwanne Jail | William Bradford Huie | Dutton | |
1957 | Best First Novel | Rebecca's Pride | Donald McNutt Douglass | Harper | |
1957 | Best Novel | A Dram of Poison | Charlotte Armstrong | Coward-McCann | |
1957 | Best Novel | The Man Who Didn't Fly | Margot Bennett | Harper | |
1957 | Best Short Story | The Blessington Method | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: June '56 |
1957 | Best Short Story | The Gentlest of the Brothers | David Alexander | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: February '56 |
1957 | Best Short Story | The Last Spin | Evan Hunter | Manhunt | Volume: September '56 |
1957 | Book Jacket Award | Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife | Doubleday | Comment: hardcover | |
1957 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Curtis W. Casewit | Denver Post | ||
1957 | Special Edgars | Compulsion | Meyer Levin | Simon & Schuster | |
1957 | The Raven Award | Dorothy Kilgallen | Comment: Reader of the Year | ||
1956 | Best Episode in a TV Series | A Taste of Honey | Alvin Sapinsley Jr. | ABC | Series: Elgin Hour |
1956 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Thin Air | Ben Starr | CBS-TV | Series: Climax |
1956 | Best Fact Crime | Dead and Gone | Manly Wade Wellman | University of North Carolina Press | |
1956 | Best Fact Crime | The Assassins | Robert J. Donovan | Harper | |
1956 | Best Fact Crime | The Truth About Belle Gunness | Lillian de la Torre | Gold Medal | |
1956 | Best First Novel | The Perfectionist | Lane Kauffman | Lippincott | |
1956 | Best First Novel | In His Blood | Harold R. Daniels | Dell | |
1956 | Best First Novel | Much Ado About Murder | Fred Levon | Dodd, Mead | |
1956 | Best Foreign film | Diabolique | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Filmsonor | |
1956 | Best Motion Picture | The Desperate Hours | Joseph Hayes | Paramount | |
1956 | Best Novel | Beast in View | Margaret Millar | Random House | |
1956 | Best Novel | The Case of the Talking Bug | The Gordons | Doubleday | |
1956 | Best Novel | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | Coward-McCann | |
1956 | Best Short Story | Dream No More | Philip MacDonald | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November '55 |
1956 | Best Short Story | Invitation to an Accident | Wade Miller | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: July '55 |
1956 | Book Jacket Award | Scribners | |||
1955 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Smoke | Gore Vidal | CBS-TV | Series: Suspense |
1955 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Long Goodbye | E. Jack Neuman | CBS-TV | Series: Climax |
1955 | Best Fact Crime | The Girl with the Scarlet Brand | Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson | Fawcett | |
1955 | Best First Novel | Go, Lovely Rose | Jean Potts | Scribners | |
1955 | Best Motion Picture | Rear Window | John Michael Hayes | Paramount | |
1955 | Best Novel | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler | Houghton Mifflin | |
1955 | Best Play | Witness for the Prosecution | Agatha Christie | ||
1955 | Best Radio Drama | The Tree | Stanley Niss | CBS | Series: 21st Precinct |
1955 | Best Short Story | The House Party | Stanley Ellin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May '54 |
1955 | Book Jacket Award | Berton Roueche | Dell | Comment: softcover | |
1955 | Book Jacket Award | Eleven Blue Men | Little, Brown | ||
1955 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Drexel Drake | Chicago Tribune |