This is because indie film runs on the idea that, instead of watching a big-budget film acted by A-list stars, people would instead prefer to indulge in the day-to-day concerns of the every-man, every-woman, and every-screaming-child. Though individual productions are usually viewed by very few, they, and their soundtrack performed by man with a simultaneously loud and contagious disease, are year-on-year outside favourite to clean up in all major categories at the Oscars and leave half-empty Coke bottles in the minor ones.