Toni Servillo, one of Italy’s most prolific and respected performers, won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for his role as a morally upright Italian president struggling to overcome his indecision and take a stance.

A Venice regular, Servillo has enjoyed a rich, decades-long collaboration with director Paolo Sorrentino, who often casts him in his films.

Saturday’s prize was awarded for his work in the Neapolitan director’s “La Grazia”, and in accepting the award Servillo thanked Sorrentino.

He was also one of many at the awards ceremony speaking out against the war in Gaza, calling Gaza “a land where human dignity is cruelly trampled on every day”.

In “La Grazia”, Servillo portrays a politician nearing the end of an illustrious career who wrestles with a mor

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