Quick Answer. Blood boils at approximately the same temperature as water, around 100 degrees centigrade. Human blood is essentially a water solution, made up primarily of water. The salt in the blood, a concentration of approximately 0.9 percent, does little to increase the boiling point of human blood. Continue Reading.
Best Picture: Rain Man. Rain Man also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Directing (Barry Levinson), and Writing â Screenplay written directly for the screen (Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow). Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Best Actress (âGorillas in the Mistâ) and Best Supporting Actress (âWorking Girlâ), but did not win either.
Also nominated for their work on Wild Is the Wind were composer Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Ned Washington for their title song. Snubbed at OscarÂ® time was Tony Franciosa, a nominee the previous year for his role in A Hatful of Rain (1956), which he had originated on Broadway and for which he had received a Tony Award nomination in 1956.