At the beginning of his career he was mentored by Vilmos Zsigmond, the Hungarian-American cinematographer of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The Black Dahlia.
Many documentaries marked under his name in the early 1990s, especially ones related to politically conflicted situations, such as John Bosco’s Rwanda which was documented during the Rwandan Civil War, or the Fish called Adolf during the Breakup of Yugoslavia.
He directed several American and Hungarian short feature films in the late ‘90s like The Insanity Plea (1998), Mail Ordered Bride (1998), Raphael (1997), Ten Commandments (1996), Train (1994).
Forgacs also worked as cinematographer in a Canadian and US production, the I Spy, directed by Betty Thomas, starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson.
In 2011 he completed a documentary on the intoxicating Hungarian history about Countess Elizabeth Bathory, which was based on his historical research for his upcoming feature film, The beauty never dies.