2025 was a banner year for Murder Made Fiction: in addition to celebrating our anniversary, it was the first full year of the podcast. This gave Jenn and I the excuse to consider the diverse range of fictionalized true crime titles that debuted last year.
With that in mind, we wanted to celebrate a few titles (and cast stones at a few others) with the first annual True Crimey Awards.
After examining the full roster of what we covered between the Main Feed and the Patreon, here are the 2025 titles in contention (as you can see Netflix, Hulu, and Peacock dominate fictionalized true crime adaptations):
- Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix)
- The Conjuring: Last Rites
- Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock)
- Eden
- Good American Family (Hulu)
- Happy Face (Paramount+)
- Lockerbie (Peacock)
- Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Netflix)
- Murdaugh: Death in the Family (Hulu)
- The Monster of Florence (Netflix)
- No Tears in Hell
- The Order
- The Ritual
- Smoke (Apple TV+)
- Sovereign
- The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (Hulu)
After careful deliberation, here are the categories we settled on:
- Fave 2025 Fictionalized Text
- Most Accurate to Real Life
- Fave 2025 True Crime Title We Didn’t Cover
- Best Conversation Starter
- Best Use of Music
- Best Performance
- Best Individual Episode of a Series; and
- Most Anticipated (2026 and Beyond)
We’d love to expand on the scope and categories of the True Crimeys in the coming years, so if you watched true crime last year (particularly documentaries), please let us know what else we could/should be covering! And what are you looking forward to in 2026?
Want even more Murder Made Fiction? Be sure to check out the pod’s Patreon feed, where we have ~125 hours of content including episode by episode coverage of David Fincher‘s Mindhunter S01!
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