Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers and a Hollywood outsider.

Ms. Arzner, a Hollywood outsider, ultimately became a professor of film at U.C.L.A., where she mentored star pupil Francis Ford Coppola.

As a one-time Hollywood outsider who ushered political documentaries into the realm of mass appeal, Mr. Moore is, paradoxically, a role model for these young conservatives.

But the figure who dominates "The Player" is Robert Altman, a Hollywood outsider who spends most of his time in New York.

Mr. Scorsese's awareness of himself as a Hollywood outsider may have made him more amenable to taking on mainstream projects, like his latest.

Though in his later years he became the quintessential Hollywood outsider (complete with a director's credit on a 1970's porno, "Love You"), Derek was born the privileged son of show biz royalty.

Similar events have been organized to bring Mr. Harris, a Hollywood outsider, together with academy voters.

A wonderfully comic novel about savvy Hollywood outsiders trying to get in - and to juggle their disastrous but funny love lives.

Tilda Swinton sees herself as a Hollywood outsider.

Not the fake Hollywood outsider, like Brad Pitt or someone.