* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Best Fact Crime | Lady: Killers | W.T. Brannon | Quinn | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Strangle Hold | Mary McMullen | Harper | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Carry My Coffin Slowly | Lee Herrington | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Cure it with Honey | Thurston Scott | Harper | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | The Christmas Card Murders | David William Meredith | Knopf | |
| 1952 | Best First Novel | The Eleventh Hour | Robert B. Sinclair | Mill | |
| 1952 | Best Motion Picture | Detective Story | Sidney Kingsley, Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan | Paramount | Comment: Kingsley wrote the stage play on which the screen version was based, Wyler and Yordan were the screenwriters |
| 1952 | Best Motion Picture | The Man with a Cloak | John Dickson Carr | MGM | Comment: based on the novel by Carr |
| 1952 | Best Motion Picture | The People Against O'Hara | Eleazar Lipsky | MGM | Comment: based on the novel by Lipsky |
| 1952 | Best Radio Drama | Dragnet | James Moser, Jack Webb | NBC | |
| 1952 | Best Short Story | Fancies and Goodnights | John Collier | Doubleday | |
| 1952 | Best Short Story | Full Cargo | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Doubleday | |
| 1952 | Best Short Story | Handbook for Poisoners | Raymond T. Bond | Rinehart & Co. | |
| 1952 | Best Short Story | The Memoirs of Solar Pons | August Derleth | Mycroft and Moran | |
| 1952 | Best Short Story | Twenty Great Tales of Murder | Brett Halliday, Helen McCloy | Random House | |
| 1952 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Lenore Glen Offord | San Francisco Chronicle | Comment: for best overall mystery reviewing | |
| 1952 | Special Edgars | Queen Quorum: The 125 Most Important Books of Detective-Crime-Mystery Short Stories | Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee | Biblo and Tannen | |
| 1951 | Best Fact Crime | Twelve Against Crime | Edward D. Radin | Putnam | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Nightmare in Manhattan | Thomas Walsh | Little, Brown | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Happy Holiday! | Thaddeus O'Finn | Rinehart & Co. | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Strangers on a Train | Patricia Highsmith | Harper | |
| 1951 | Best First Novel | The House Without a Door | Thomas Sterling | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | Mr. 880 | St. Clair McKelway | Twentieth Century Fox | Comment: Winner of a special award as the author of the novel |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | The Asphalt Jungle | Ben Maddow | MGM | |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | Stage Fright | Whitfield Cook | Warner Bros. | Comment: based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson |
| 1951 | Best Motion Picture | The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Harry Brown | A&T | Comment: based on the novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simnon |
| 1951 | Best Radio Drama | Dragnet | James Moser, Jack Webb | NBC | |
| 1951 | Best Radio Drama | The Mysterious Traveler | Robert Arthur, David Kogan | Mutual Broadcasting System | |
| 1951 | Best Short Story | Diagnosis: Homicide | Lawrence G. Blochman | Lippincott | |
| 1951 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Dorothy B. Hughes | Albuquerque Tribune | Comment: and Los Angeles Daily News | |
| 1951 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Anthony Boucher | New York Times | Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | |
| 1951 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Elizabeth Bullock | New York Times | ||
| 1951 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Drexel Drake | Chicago Tribune | ||
| 1951 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Hillis Mills | The New Yorker | ||
| 1951 | Special Edgars | W.T. Brannon | Comment: for general excellence in fact crime writing | ||
| 1951 | Special Edgars | The Web | Franklin Heller | Comment: producer/director of MWA's TV show | |
| 1950 | Best Fact Crime | Bad Company | Joseph Henry Jackson | Harcourt, Brace & World | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | What A Body | Alan Green | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The Dark Light | Bart Spicer | Dodd, Mead | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The End is Known | Geoffrey Holiday Hall | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The Innocent | Evelyn Piper | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | The Shadow and the Blot | G.G. Lobell, N.D. Lobell | Harper | |
| 1950 | Best First Novel | Walk the Dark Streets | William Krasner | Harper | |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | The Window | Mel Dinelli, Cornell Woolrich | RKO | Comment: Woolrich wrote the novel FIRE ESCAPE, on which the movie was based |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | Chicago Deadline | Warren Duff, Tiffany Thayer | Paramount | |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | Criss Cross | Daniel Fuchs | U-I | Comment: based on the novel by Don Tracy |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | The Scene of the Crime | Charles Schnee | MGM | Comment: based on the story by John Bartlow Martin |
| 1950 | Best Motion Picture | White Heat | Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts | Warner Bros. | Comment: based on the story by Virginia Kellogg |
| 1950 | Best Play | Detective Story | Sidney Kingsley | ||
| 1950 | Best Radio Drama | Murder by Experts | Robert Arthur, David Kogan | Mutual Broadcasting System | |
| 1950 | Best Radio Drama | Suspense | unknown | CBS | |
| 1950 | Best Radio Drama | The Fat Man | unknown | ABC | |
| 1950 | Best Radio Drama | This is Your FBI | unknown | ABC | |
| 1950 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Anthony Boucher | New York Times | Comment: and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | |
| 1950 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Elizabeth Bullock | New York Times | ||
| 1950 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Drexel Drake | Chicago Tribune | ||
| 1950 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | James Sandoe | Chicago Sun-Times | ||
| 1950 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | William C. Weber | Saturday Review of Literature | ||
| 1950 | Special Edgars | Ellery Queen | Comment: for ten years' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | ||
| 1950 | Special Edgars | The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | John Dickson Carr | Harper & Row | |
| 1949 | Best First Novel | The Room Upstairs | Mildred Davis | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1949 | Best First Novel | Shoot the Works | Richard Ellington | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1949 | Best First Novel | Wilders Walk Away | Herbert Brean | Wm. Morrow | |
| 1949 | Best Foreign film | Quai des Orfevres | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Vog Films | |
| 1949 | Best Motion Picture | Call Northside 777 | Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Henry Hathaway, Leonard Hoffman, Otto Lang, Quentin Reynolds | Twentieth Century Fox | Comment: Screenwriters: Reynolds, Hoffman, Dratler, Cady. Posthumous award for Cady. Hathaway was director. Lang produced |
| 1949 | Best Motion Picture | Rope | Arthur Laurents | Transatlantic | Comment: based on the play by Patrick Hamilton |
| 1949 | Best Motion Picture | Sorry, Wrong Number | Lucille Fletcher | Paramount | Comment: From her play |
| 1949 | Best Motion Picture | The Big Clock | Jonathan Latimer | Paramount | Comment: based on the novel by Kenneth Fearing |
| 1949 | Best Radio Drama | Inner Sanctum | John Roeburt | CBS | Comment: Himan Brown director/producer |
| 1949 | Best Radio Drama | The Mysterious Traveler | Robert Arthur, David Kogan | Mutual Broadcasting System | |
| 1949 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | James Sandoe | Chicago Sun-Times | ||
| 1949 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Isaac Anderson | New York Times | ||
| 1949 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Angelica Gibbs | The New Yorker | ||
| 1949 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | William P. McGivern | Philadelphia Record | ||
| 1949 | Special Edgars | Clayton Rawson | Comment: for launching Clue magazine | ||
| 1949 | Special Edgars | Marie Rodell | Duell, Sloan & Pearce | Comment: for her editorship of the Regional Murder series | |
| 1949 | Special Edgars | Arthur A. Stoughton | Comment: president of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences and custodian of Poe Cottage in Fordham for 26 years | ||
| 1949 | Special Edgars | Peter W. Williams | Comment: for creating the Edgar bust | ||
| 1948 | Best Fact Crime | Twelve Against the Law | Edward D. Radin | Duell, Sloan & Pearce | |
| 1948 | Best First Novel | The Fabulous Clipjoint | Fredric Brown | Dutton | |
| 1948 | Best Motion Picture | Crossfire | John Paxton | RKO | Comment: based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary, producer/Adrian Scott, associate producer/Edward Dmytryk, director |
| 1948 | Best Radio Drama | Suspense | William Spier | CBS | |
| 1948 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Howard Haycraft | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Comment: and author of THE ART OF THE MYSTERY STORY | |
| 1947 | Best First Novel | The Horizontal Man | Helen Eustis | Harper | |
| 1947 | Best Motion Picture | The Killers | Anthony Veiller | Hellinger-Universal | Comment: Mark Hellinger, producer; Robert Siodmak, director |
| 1947 | Best Radio Drama | The Adventures of Sam Spade | Jason James, Bob Tallman | CBS | Comment: William Spier producer |
| 1947 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | William C. Weber | Saturday Review of Literature | Comment: alias "Judge Lynch" | |
| 1946 | Best First Novel | Watchful at Night | Julius Fast | Rinehart & Co. | |
| 1946 | Best Motion Picture | Murder, My Sweet | John Paxton | RKO | Comment: screenplay: Raymond Chandler/author of Farewell, My Lovely on which the movie was based. Directed by Edward Dymtryk |
| 1946 | Best Motion Picture | The House on 92nd St. | Charles G. Booth, Barre Lyndon, John Monks, Jr. | Twentieth Century Fox | Comment: Honorary Scroll |
| 1946 | Best Radio Drama | Ellery Queen | Frederic Dannay, Manfred B. Lee | CBS | Comment: A tie this year with MR. AND MRS. NORTH, Dannay and Lee were the team using the pseudonym "Ellery Queen" |
| 1946 | Best Radio Drama | Mr. and Mrs. North | Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge | NBC | Comment: A tie this year with ELLERY QUEEN |
| 1946 | Outstanding Mystery Criticism | Anthony Boucher | San Francisco Chronicle | ||