Watch his speech, via Radio RAMPA, below.
Eisenbergs screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.
Eisenberg applied for Polish citizenship after filming there.
Jesse EisenbergScreencapture Radio Rampa/X
Poland allows citizenship for those whose direct ancestors were born there or lived there after 1920.
Im so unbelievably honored, Eisenberg said in a speech at the ceremony (via Radio RAMPA).
This is an honor of a lifetime and something I have been very interested in for two decades.
While she left Poland for the U.S. in 1938, other Eisenberg family members perished in the Holocaust.
