Crime Thriller Awards


The Crime Thriller Awards is a British awards ceremony dedicated to crime thriller fiction. The inaugural event was held on 3 October 2008 at the Grosvenor Hotel, hosted by comedian and Jonathan Creek actor Alan Davies. It was televised on ITV3 on 6 October. The ceremony was preceded by seven weeks of crime-thriller-related programming on ITV3.
In 2009, the awards were merged with the Daggers, the awards presented by the Crime Writers' Association. A second "crime thriller season" was broadcast over six weeks on ITV3 before the awards were presented on 21 October. The 2009 ceremony was sponsored by the high street optician chain Specsavers.
The 2010 and 2011 awards ceremonies were presented by Marcus Brigstocke. Since 2012, Bradley Walsh has hosted the awards.

2008 awards

Film of the YearITV3 Writer's Award for Classic TV Drama

  • Colin Dexter
  • *P. D. James
  • *Lynda La Plante
  • *Val McDermid
  • *Ian Rankin
  • *Ruth Rendell
  • TV Crime DramaInternational TV Crime Drama
  • Criminal Justice
  • *Spooks
  • *Ashes to Ashes
  • *He Kills Coppers
  • *The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  • *Wire in the Blood
  • The Wire
  • *'
  • *'
  • *Dexter
  • *Numb3rs
  • *Shark
  • Best ActressBest Actor
  • Hermione Norris
  • *Keeley Hawes
  • *Amanda Redman
  • *Kelly Reilly
  • *Jill Scott
  • Rupert Penry-Jones
  • * Philip Glenister
  • * James Nesbitt
  • * Dominic West
  • * Ben Whishaw
  • Author of the YearInternational Author of the Year
  • Ian Rankin
  • * Lee Child
  • * Robert Harris
  • * Peter James
  • Stieg Larsson
  • * Jeffery Deaver
  • * Karin Slaughter
  • * P. J. Tracy
  • Breakthrough Author of the YearThe International Crime Writing Hall of Fame
  • Stuart MacBride
  • *Chelsea Cain
  • *Michael Robotham
  • *Anne Zouroudi
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Agatha Christie
  • P. D. James
  • 2009 awards

  • Host: Alan Davies
  • Ceremony date: 21 October 2009
  • Broadcast date: 27 October 2009
  • Film of the YearITV3 Writer's Award for Favourite Crime Genre Author

    • Gran Torino
    • *Changeling
    • *Public Enemies
    • *Quantum of Solace
    • *State of Play
  • Harlan Coben
  • *Martina Cole
  • *Dick Francis
  • *Nicci French
  • *Alexander McCall Smith
  • TV Crime DramaInternational TV Crime Drama
  • Red Riding
  • *Ashes to Ashes
  • *A Place of Execution
  • *Spooks
  • *Wallander
  • The Wire
  • *Dexter
  • *The Mentalist
  • *Wallander
  • Best ActressBest Actor
  • Juliet Stevenson
  • *Emilia Fox
  • *Keeley Hawes
  • *Hermione Norris
  • Dominic West
  • *Kenneth Branagh
  • *Philip Glenister
  • *Tom Hardy
  • *Paddy Considine
  • Gold DaggerIan Fleming Steel Dagger
  • William Brodrick
  • *Kate Atkinson
  • *Mark Billingham
  • *Lawrence Block
  • *Matthew Hall
  • *Gene Kerrigan
  • John Hart
  • *Michael Connelly
  • *Gillian Flynn
  • *Charlie Newton
  • *Daniel Silva
  • *Olen Steinhauer
  • *Andrew Williams
  • John Creasey DaggerThe International Crime Writing Hall of Fame
  • Johan Theorin
  • *David Fuller
  • *James Green
  • *Rod Madocks
  • *Robert Rotenberg
  • *Dan Waddell
  • Colin Dexter
  • Lynda La Plante
  • Val McDermid
  • Ian Rankin
  • 2010 awards

  • Host: Marcus Brigstocke

    2011 awards

  • Host: Marcus Brigstocke

    2012 awards

  • Host: Bradley Walsh
  • The Film DaggerBest Detective Duo

  • DI Robbie Lewis and DS James HathawayLewis
  • *DCI Alan Banks and DS Annie Cabbot – DCI Banks
  • *DC Anna Travis and DCS James Langton – Above Suspicion
  • *DC Jane Scott and DC Rachel Bailey – Scott & Bailey
  • *DI Joseph Chandler and DS Ray Miles – Whitechapel
  • *DCI Vera Stanhope and DS Joe AshworthVera
  • The TV DaggerThe International TV Dagger
  • Sherlock
  • *Appropriate Adult
  • *Line of Duty
  • *Whitechapel
  • *Wallander
  • The Bridge
  • *Boardwalk Empire
  • *Dexter
  • *Homeland
  • *The Killing II
  • The Best Actress DaggerThe Best Actor Dagger
  • Claire Danes for Homeland
  • *Brenda Blethyn for Vera
  • *Sofie Gråbøl for The Killing II
  • *Sofia Helin for The Bridge
  • *Maxine Peake for Silk
  • Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock
  • *Kenneth Branagh for Wallander
  • *Steve Buscemi for Boardwalk Empire
  • *Damian Lewis for Homeland
  • *Dominic West for Appropriate Adult
  • The Best Supporting Actress DaggerThe Best Supporting Actor Dagger
  • Kelly Macdonald for Boardwalk Empire
  • *Frances Barber for Silk
  • *Archie Panjabi for The Good Wife
  • *Sarah Smart for Wallander
  • *Una Stubbs for Sherlock
  • Martin Freeman for Sherlock
  • *Alun Armstrong for Garrow's Law
  • *Alan Cumming for The Good Wife
  • *Phil Davis for Silk and Whitechapel
  • *Laurence Fox for Lewis
  • The CWA Gold DaggerThe John Creasey New Blood Dagger
  • The Rage by Gene Kerrigan
  • *Bereft by Chris Womersley
  • *Vengeance in Mind by N. J. Cooper
  • *The Flight by M. R. Hall
  • A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
  • *Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
  • *What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright
  • *Good People by Ewart Hutton
  • The Ian Fleming Steel DaggerThe Specsavers Bestseller Dagger
  • A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming
  • *Dare Me by Megan Abbott
  • *Reamde by Neal Stephenson
  • *The Fear Index by Robert Harris
  • Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
  • *Birthdays for the Dead by Stuart MacBride
  • *The Bat by Jo Nesbø
  • *The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves
  • *The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
  • 2013 awards

  • Host: Bradley Walsh
  • The Film DaggerITV3 Crime Thriller Living Legends

    • Skyfall
    • *Jack Reacher
    • *Killing Them Softly
    • *Looper
    • *Seven Psychopaths
  • Martina Cole
  • Wilbur Smith
  • *Harlan Coben
  • *Patricia Cornwell
  • *Frederick Forsyth
  • *Nicci French
  • The TV DaggerThe International TV Dagger
  • Broadchurch
  • *The Bletchley Circle
  • *The Fall
  • *Luther
  • *Top of the Lake
  • The Killing III
  • *Arne Dahl
  • *Boardwalk Empire
  • *Homeland
  • The Best Actress DaggerThe Best Actor Dagger
  • Olivia Colman for Broadchurch
  • *Gillian Anderson for The Fall
  • *Claire Danes for Homeland
  • *Sofie Gråbøl for The Killing III
  • *Lesley Sharp for Scott & Bailey
  • David Tennant for Broadchurch
  • *Paddy Considine for '
  • *Idris Elba for Luther
  • *Jason Isaacs for Case Histories
  • *Damian Lewis for Homeland
  • The Best Supporting Actress DaggerThe Best Supporting Actor Dagger
  • Amelia Bullmore for Scott & Bailey
  • *Holly Hunter for Top of the Lake
  • *Pauline Quirke for Broadchurch
  • *Jodie Whittaker for Broadchurch
  • *Ruth Wilson for Luther
  • Andrew Buchan for Broadchurch
  • *Roger Allam for Endeavour
  • *Warren Brown for Luther
  • *Paul McGann for A Mother's Son
  • *Mandy Patinkin for Homeland
  • The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger The CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger
  • Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
  • *Capital Punishment by Robert Wilson
  • *Ratlines by Stuart Neville
  • *The Sentinel by Mark Oldfield
  • Derek B. Miller for Norwegian by Night
  • *The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm MacKay
  • *Shadow of the Rock by Thomas Mogford
  • *Something You Are by Hanna Jameson
  • The CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger ITV3 Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read
  • Dead Lions by Mick Herron
  • *Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
  • *Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
  • *The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
  • The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm MacKay
  • *Bryant & May and the Invisible Code by Christopher Fowler
  • *City of Devils by Diana Bretherick
  • *Dare Me by Megan Abbott
  • *The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor
  • *Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay
  • 2014 ITV Specsavers awards

  • Host: Bradley Walsh
  • The Film DaggerITV3 Crime Thriller Living Legends

    • Cold in July
  • Denise Mina
  • Robert Harris
  • Midsomer Murders
  • The TV DaggerThe International TV Dagger
  • Happy Valley
  • True Detective
  • The Best Actress DaggerThe Best Actor Dagger
  • Keeley Hawes for Line of Duty
  • Matthew McConaughey for True Detective
  • The Best Supporting Actress DaggerThe Best Supporting Actor Dagger
  • Amanda Abbington for Sherlock
  • James Norton for Happy Valley
  • The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger The CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger
  • An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
  • Ray Celestin for The Axeman’s Jazz
  • The CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger ITV3 Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year
  • This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
  • Entry Island by Peter May