Sally Hawkins of “Happy-Go-Lucky” won the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Actress as voting got under way this morning at the Time-Life Building. Hawkins won on the second weighted ballot, receiving 39 points to 32 points for Melissa Leo of “Frozen River,” with Kate Winslet (“Revolutionary Road”) and Anne Hathaway (“Rachel Getting Married”) with 22 apiece. In the NYFCC’s convoluted voting system, the critics make one choice apiece in the first round. If nothing captures a majority, there follows one or more weighted ballots, with each critic ranks choices with 3, 2, and 1 points; the winner also has to appear on the majority of ballots until the fouth ballot (if there is one).