Best Documentaries on Netflix: Making a Murderer wins four Emmys

Hugely popular Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer on Sunday, converted 4 of its 6 Emmy nominations on Sunday.

The docuseries – which debuted December 18, 2015, and quickly became a hit – was nominated for six Emmys, and ended up sweeping the top three nonfiction categories Sunday night, Deadline explains.

The hit documentary series won the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Series, Outstanding Writing (Nonfiction Program), Outstanding Directing (Nonfiction Program), and Outstanding Picture Editing (Nonfiction Program), according to E!

In addition to its four wins, the documentary was nominated for best sound mixing and sound editing for a nonfiction program. Both of those awards were won by Cartel Land.

Onstage, Making a Murderer writers-directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos thanked their families, the creative team and most importantly the subjects of their documentary series: “If they had not trusted us to take the time to listen and share their stories accurately and fairly, there would be no series”, they said. The show also goes over the conviction for Avery’s nephew, Brenden Dassey, who was also charged with Halbach’s murder.

The State of Wisconsin has appealed a federal judge’s decision to overturn the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey which could see him remain behind bars. Dassey, who turns 27 this October, had been sentenced to 41 years in prison for first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse. Avery’s subsequent lawsuit was ostensibly on the brink of exposing corruption in local law enforcement when he found himself the primary suspect in a new case: The murder of a young photographer named Teresa Halbach.

He says new testing could determine whether the blood found in Teresa Halbach auto was old DNA from a blood sample sitting at the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office for the old murder Avery had been cleared of. It is being produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s company Smokehouse and Sonar Entertainment.

They also spoke about their next project, a scripted adaptation of The Huffington Post article “America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker“.