Leigh's fourth feature film was the black comedy "Naked" (1993) starring David Thewlis as a deranged intellectual and conspiracy theorist. The film premiered at the 46th Cannes Film Festival where it competed for the Palme d'Or and received wins for Best Director for Leigh and Best Actor for Thewlis. Derek Malcolm of "The Guardian" noted that the film "is certainly Leigh's most striking piece of cinema to date" and that "it tries to articulate what is wrong with the society that Mrs Thatcher claims does not exist."