Matthew Weiner, the executive producer and creator of AMC's hit show "Mad Men," is quite mad himself because none of his cast members have been given television's most prestigious award.

"One of my great frustrations is that they haven't been recognized more," Weiner said at a session by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences according to New York Daily News. "None of these actors has ever won an Emmy -- and they are the gold standard."

The show has been nominated for more than 100 Emmys since 2007 and has taken home more than a dozen of them, but not a single one of the awards has gone to any of "Mad Men's" its main actors.

Just last month, Weiner accepted yet another statuette for the honorary Founders Award at the 2014 International Emmy Awards in New York. To add insult to injury, the prize was presented to him by "Mad Men" stars Christina Hendricks and John Slattery.

"I still feel like their contribution has been unrecognized," Weiner said about the members of his cast.

Weiner's saga period drama about a 1960s Madison Avenue ad agency premiered on July 19, 2007. The show is now in its seventh and final season.

"Although these are stories in theory out of the '60s, part of the success of the show is that it's a touchstone for how we think about ourselves and our own relationships even today," Bruce Paisner, the president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, said. "'Mad Men' has really come to define television for a whole generation of viewers. It's an amazing global cultural phenomenon ... a force of nature as much as just a television series."

The show's leading man, Jon Hamm, was nominated for the Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" category every one of the seven years the show has been on the air but lost every single time, the World Entertainment News Network detailed. In 2007, Hamm did, however, win a Golden Globe for his portrayal of ad executive Don Draper.

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