“Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins marries “The Farewell” filmmaker Lulu Wang

One of Hollywood's most prominent filmmaking power couples just tied the knot.

Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama Moonlight, and Lulu Wang, director of the critically acclaimed family dramedy The Farewell, got married at a private ceremony last weekend. Jenkins confirmed the news to PEOPLE on the red carpet at the premiere of his new film Mufasa: The Lion King.

"It feels good, man," he said. "You know, we've been together for quite some time. We do the same thing, and when I started this project she was very heavily involved. You know, and then sort of, like, convincing me to at least consider reading the script."

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Jenkins, 45, and Wang, 41, have been romantically linked since at least 2018, and they made their first red carpet appearance together at the 2019 Academy Awards. "I think when you do something that's very strange — which, I think directing movies is strange — it's really wonderful to go home and there's someone there who also does the same thing," Jenkins told PEOPLE on Tuesday. "So they understand all your weirdness and all your strangeness, and they can help you navigate it."

Jenkins made his feature directing debut with Medicine for Melancholy, which premiered at SXSW in 2008 and received rave reviews. His second film, Moonlight, won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2017 and earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as a nomination for Best Director.

He followed up Moonlight with the James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk in 2018. Regina King won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in the film, and Jenkins received another nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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After making her own feature debut with 2014's Posthumous, Wang garnered stellar reviews for her sophomore film, The Farewell, based on a 2016 episode of This American Life that documented her family's experience keeping her grandmother's cancer diagnosis a secret. The film premiered at Sundance in early 2019, and Wang was first spotted with Jenkins as she supported the project at the festival. (He was also in the midst of the awards circuit for Beale Street at the time.) Jenkins is listed in the "Special Thanks" section of The Farewell's credits.

In the five years between their relationship going public and Mufasa (which hits theaters next week), Jenkins and Wang have only released new projects on television. Jenkins' 10-episode adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad hit Prime Video in 2020, earning Emmy nominations for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and for Jenkins' direction. Wang's show Expats, a six-episode adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee's The Expatriates, premiered on the same service earlier this year.

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Wang told Entertainment Weekly that she greatly enjoyed working on the small screen when Expats premiered. "I hope to do more television, for sure," she said. "There's so much opportunity in television because you're not beholden to everything hinging on this one weekend at the box office. And I love the time that you have to really dive deep into characters. Obviously I love a beginning, middle, and end to a story, which is what I love about films, but I also think of television like a novel in that there's layers upon layers that you're continually unraveling. I love the journey and the way television is in your home and you live with these characters for an extended period of time."

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Meanwhile, Jenkins told EW that he was excited to make his first musical — with Lin-Manuel Miranda, no less — with Mufasa. "For me, working with Lin was amazing," he said. "I've never made a musical before. So when I took the job, I knew that was going to be a part of it, but I just figured, 'We'll figure that out when we figure that out.' In a musical, we need to figure that out first!"

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